How can I map keys in the terminal?

[mydatespots]

I use XShell (a sort of PuTTY on steroids) on Windows to connect to my Ubuntu box. My shell is bash.

How can I map keys so that when I press Ctrl+LeftArrow, the shell does Alt+B (move cursor one word to the left) and when I press Ctrl+RightArrow, the shell receives Alt+F (move cursor one word right)?

I think this is very basic customization, but I haven't found a short answer for it after quite a lot of searching. I found this Linux keyboard and console FAQ but it's overly long and complex. What I want is very simple, just to map two keyboard shortcuts. How can I do that, easily, on the Ubuntu box (not in XShell, Putty, on Windows, or in my brain)?

Thanks!

[pauper]

How can I map keys so that when I press Ctrl+LeftArrow, the shell does Alt+B
(move cursor one word to the left) and when I press Ctrl+RightArrow, the shell
receives Alt+F (move cursor one word right)?

Here is a quick fix:

echo "\"\e[1;5C\": forward-word
> \"\e[1;5D\": backward-word" >> ~/.inputrc
bash

To view all default bash keybindings:

bind -p

And some here:

stty -a

...after quite a lot of searching.

man bash

/^READLINE

[mydatespots]

[QUOTE=pauper;5505633]Here is a quick fix:

echo "\"\e[1;5C\": forward-word
> \"\e[1;5D\": backward-word" >> ~/.inputrc
bash

Thanks, but that apparently did nothing. To be clear, I created .inputrc and added the following two lines:

"\e[1;5C": forward-word
"\e[1;5D": backward-word

Worse, if I simply create a 0-byte .inputrc, when I press Delete in the SSH client, a tilde (~) is echoed instead of the character under the cursor being deleted.

I'm sorry, but WTF is it so complicated to bind Ctrl+Arrows to left/right word?!