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A good thing to know in general for interrupting any running command.

orion
– orion

2014-03-05 10:09:10 +00:00
Commented Mar 5, 2014 at 10:09
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if it does not work try also crtl + d to stop process and if does not work use ctrl + z to background the running command find it's PID and kill it with kill

Kiwy
– Kiwy

2014-03-05 10:54:41 +00:00
Commented Mar 5, 2014 at 10:54
^D will only work if a process is reading from standard input. ^\ is a good one too (sends a SIGQUIT).

Flup
– Flup

2014-03-05 11:01:15 +00:00
Commented Mar 5, 2014 at 11:01
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@Kiwy Easier is to run jobs and use kill %x

Bernhard
– Bernhard

2014-03-05 12:19:52 +00:00
Commented Mar 5, 2014 at 12:19
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It depends what intr is set to on the tty. If you do stty -a you'll see which control codes are set to do what.

Flup
– Flup

2014-03-05 15:32:01 +00:00
Commented Mar 5, 2014 at 15:32

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