How to go to beginning of command line when I am inside the screen

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In bash I can hit Ctrl + a and go to first of the command line.

But in screen Ctrl + a does not do this. How do I go to first of command line in screen?

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You can press Ctrl+a followed by a to go to the beginning of the line. The a sends a Ctrl+a to the terminal.

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