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Pressing enter then ~. will gracefully shutdown hung ssh sessions
I am amazed by the fact that I never accidentally trigger this feature.
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To be really pedantic (sorry! I'm not complaining about your comment), your keyboard does not have any key labelled 'control', it is always (AFAIK) abbreviated as 'ctrl'. Which is really weird to me, as it's hardly a big word needing abbreviating, and keyboards often have other long words written on the keys ('delete', 'page down', and so on). On top of that, the shortened 'ctrl' is really a terrible abbreviation. It…
You're incorrect, especially for the typical reader here. A good chunk (maybe not over 50%, but its gotta be close) of the regular readers on this site use Macs. Most Mac keyboards, including the ones on the Macbook Pro, spell it out. Same for most non IBM/IBM-PC compatible keyboards.
Neat. So when my terminal is spewing output because I ran "cat massivefile" instead of "cat massivefile | head", I can hit ctrl-D to stop it instead of repeatedly hitting ctrl-C and despairing.
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To be really pedantic (sorry! I'm not complaining about your comment), your keyboard does not have any key labelled 'control', it is always (AFAIK) abbreviated as 'ctrl'. Which is really weird to me, as it's hardly a big word needing abbreviating, and keyboards often have other long words written on the keys ('delete', 'page down', and so on). On top of that, the shortened 'ctrl' is really a terrible abbreviation. It…
http://www.clickwithyourmac.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/C...
Perhaps the standard is something to do with the country (mine is a UK layout).
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+++ATH0
Darnit, I had to dial in again. Kidding of course, but once upon a time many 56k6 modem contained a bug that, upon receiving this in plain text, would cause an actual modem hangup. You could kill hundreds of IRC connections with that one.
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^D, Ctrl+D and C-d are all different ways of saying the same thing. There's nothing particularly neutral about Ctrl+D, any more than there is about using the word 'water' to mean the substance of which the oceans are mostly comprised — it's just another dialect's term.
It's not about neutrality, it's about ease of understanding. For me at least, when speaking about something that can be entered into a keyboard ^D is less obvious than Ctrl+D–I need to press the key labeled "control" to issue the proper command, the key labeled "^" will not suffice.
I wish articles like this would say what ^D means. I remember when I was new to Unix it took me a while to realize that I wasn't supposed to type a literal caret (^) followed by a D. For reference it means Ctrl+D, unless you you have a strange keyboard from Sun or something.
^D is the old school way of writing it; you'd see it so much you'd only ever once be confused about it, generally in the very first few days you were learning to use a computer. It's never used anymore, I suppose, except for the old school people who still have enough muscular memory built up to write it that way. I know I do; I learned it from some computer magazine in the 80's and have a hard time letting go.
I was born after the 80s, and I use that shorthand (although I suppose this probably says more about me than it does about the shorthand itself). I didn't even understand the original comment until I read through the whole thing because I mentally read it as "Ctrl+D"
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http://www.clickwithyourmac.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/C...
How odd! My mac keyboard is a similar design, but has 'ctrl', and has no writing on the shift keys, caps lock and so on. The only unabbreviated word it has is 'delete'. Perhaps the standard is something to do with the country (mine is a UK layout).
