ctrl+A and ctrl+E key shortcuts can’t move cursor in bash.

ctrl+A and ctrl+E are mostly used key shortcuts to move cursor the start/end of the line, if they stop working, you need to check the command line editor option in bash. There are two command line editors for bash: emacs or vi. The default editor is emacs, that is why ctrl+A and ctrl+E works by default. Don't regard ctrl+A ctrl+E as built-in feature of bash, it can be disabled by changing editor to vi.


set -o #list current value of the options
emacs off
vi on
set -o vi #enable vi as editor, it will disable emacs automatically like set +o emacs does
set -o emacs #enable emacs as editor, it will disable vi automatically like set +o vi does


Command Editing -- Cursor Movement in command mode for vi
l (el) Move the cursor forward one character
h Move the cursor back one character
w Move the cursor forward one word
b Move the cursor back one word
fc Find character c in the line
0 (zero) Cursor to the start of the line
$ Cursor to the end of the line
l, h, w, f and b can be preceded by a number, thus 2b moves the cursor back two words, and 3fx finds the third occurrence of x in the line. In emacs and gmacs mode, cursor movement is different.

Command Editing -- Cursor Movement in emacs/gmacs
CONTROL-F Move the cursor forward one character
CONTROL-B Move the cursor back one character
ESCAPE then f Move the cursor forward one word
ESCAPE then b Move the cursor back one word
CONTROL-A Cursor to the start of the line
CONTROL-E Cursor to the end of the line


http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Command-Line-Editing

Lastly, set -o options work for ksh as well, but csh/sh doesn't support it.