Tuesday, February 5, 2019

How to "finish" a command in terminal?


When I run commands and I want to exit, I just press Ctrl+C and it works. But there are some times when this does not work, and the only way of executing another command is closing the terminal and opening a new one. I would like to know how to force the exit. For instance, it happens when I run:


git log

It starts reporting all the commits, and if I press ESC or END I can read the words END and ESC in the bottom, but nothing happens if I press them. So, what does it mean? What is the way of finishing any command?



In the git log example, just hit the q key. Q quits the current action. Q also works in the more command, and others.


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