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Wires82

Bash Shell Help

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I am messing around trying to learn the shell, and I entered "sort -f" at the command prompt. Now its just stuck in this command. It allows me to type things , but command such as exit, quit, or anything else do not work. How do I exit this command and get back to the prompt?
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dagon
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Re: Bash Shell Help

Post by dagon »

Try:
<ctrl> + d
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Wires82

Re: Bash Shell Help

Post by Wires82 »

Thank you so much. It amazing how something so simple can be so frustrating!
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Anakinholland

Re: Bash Shell Help

Post by Anakinholland »

Hya Wires,

Have a look here.

There's 3 things I use most often:

Ctrl+C - Cancel the current command
Ctrl+D - Finish the current entry (works with data-entry commands like cat, sort and mail)
Ctrl+Z - Suspend the current command

Regards,

Anakin
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