CTRL+D vs CTRL+C
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Is it true to say that CTRL+D stops input execution while CTRL+C stops output displaying (as plain data, without execution)?
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Is it true to say that CTRL+D stops input execution while CTRL+C stops output displaying (as plain data, without execution)?
keyboard-shortcuts output input
asked Feb 5 at 18:24
JohnDoeaJohnDoea
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If not a dupe, at least related: What is the difference in using Ctrl+D and Ctrl+C to terminate cat command?
– Kusalananda
Feb 5 at 18:52
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Is it true to say that CTRL+D stops input execution while CTRL+C stops output displaying (as plain data, without execution)?
keyboard-shortcuts output input
asked Feb 5 at 18:24
JohnDoeaJohnDoea
7811134
Is it true to say that CTRL+D stops input execution while CTRL+C stops output displaying (as plain data, without execution)?
keyboard-shortcuts output input
keyboard-shortcuts output input
asked Feb 5 at 18:24
JohnDoeaJohnDoea
7811134
asked Feb 5 at 18:24
JohnDoeaJohnDoea
7811134
asked Feb 5 at 18:24
JohnDoeaJohnDoea
7811134
asked Feb 5 at 18:24
JohnDoeaJohnDoea
7811134
asked Feb 5 at 18:24
JohnDoeaJohnDoea
7811134
7811134
2
If not a dupe, at least related: What is the difference in using Ctrl+D and Ctrl+C to terminate cat command?
– Kusalananda
Feb 5 at 18:52
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2
If not a dupe, at least related: What is the difference in using Ctrl+D and Ctrl+C to terminate cat command?
– Kusalananda
Feb 5 at 18:52
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2
If not a dupe, at least related: What is the difference in using Ctrl+D and Ctrl+C to terminate cat command?
– Kusalananda
Feb 5 at 18:52
If not a dupe, at least related: What is the difference in using Ctrl+D and Ctrl+C to terminate cat command?
– Kusalananda
Feb 5 at 18:52
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No, it is not true.
However, it is true to say that Ctrl+D signals an End of Transmission (EOT) event which will generally cause a program reading input to close the input file descriptor.
Ctrl+D is used for this because its place on the ASCII table corresponds to the analogous End of File control character, even though the actual EOF control character is not actually transmitted in this case.
Pressing Ctrl+C will generally (it's configurable with stty) generate an interrupt signal (SIGINT) which will be delivered to the processes that are in the current terminal (see man kill; man 3 tcgetpgrp).
answered Feb 5 at 18:30
DopeGhotiDopeGhoti
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I'm curious as to the reasoning behind the downvotes to this answer to the question. How would you who have downvoted this improve this answer? Edits or constructive comments are always welcome.
– DopeGhoti
Feb 5 at 19:25
There are a few more steps to Ctrl+D, but I don't feel it's important in this context. The process reading will get a zero back fromread(), signalling an End of File state on that fd. That in turn is due to other things.
– Kusalananda
Feb 5 at 19:52
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@mosvy I feel this comment isn't helping. How can the short question be improved IYO?
– JohnDoea
Feb 8 at 5:24
1
@mosvy demagogia means loss of time for all of us. I was really serious in my intention to ask how to IYO the difference could be best learned in a question here. I you think the difference should be learned by deepening the learning of each keyboard shortcut, this was indeed helping.
– JohnDoea
Feb 8 at 18:59
1
Digressions aside, I'm hopeful that my tweaks to the answer both clarify what is actually happening and do not diminish from the simplicity of the larger point, which is that it would not be true to say that^Cand^Dterminate stdout and stdin respectively, as asked at the outset of this adventure.
– DopeGhoti
Feb 8 at 20:14
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No, it is not true.
However, it is true to say that Ctrl+D signals an End of Transmission (EOT) event which will generally cause a program reading input to close the input file descriptor.
Ctrl+D is used for this because its place on the ASCII table corresponds to the analogous End of File control character, even though the actual EOF control character is not actually transmitted in this case.
Pressing Ctrl+C will generally (it's configurable with stty) generate an interrupt signal (SIGINT) which will be delivered to the processes that are in the current terminal (see man kill; man 3 tcgetpgrp).
answered Feb 5 at 18:30
DopeGhotiDopeGhoti
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I'm curious as to the reasoning behind the downvotes to this answer to the question. How would you who have downvoted this improve this answer? Edits or constructive comments are always welcome.
– DopeGhoti
Feb 5 at 19:25
There are a few more steps to Ctrl+D, but I don't feel it's important in this context. The process reading will get a zero back fromread(), signalling an End of File state on that fd. That in turn is due to other things.
– Kusalananda
Feb 5 at 19:52
1
@mosvy I feel this comment isn't helping. How can the short question be improved IYO?
– JohnDoea
Feb 8 at 5:24
1
@mosvy demagogia means loss of time for all of us. I was really serious in my intention to ask how to IYO the difference could be best learned in a question here. I you think the difference should be learned by deepening the learning of each keyboard shortcut, this was indeed helping.
– JohnDoea
Feb 8 at 18:59
1
Digressions aside, I'm hopeful that my tweaks to the answer both clarify what is actually happening and do not diminish from the simplicity of the larger point, which is that it would not be true to say that^Cand^Dterminate stdout and stdin respectively, as asked at the outset of this adventure.
– DopeGhoti
Feb 8 at 20:14
|
show 5 more comments
No, it is not true.
However, it is true to say that Ctrl+D signals an End of Transmission (EOT) event which will generally cause a program reading input to close the input file descriptor.
Ctrl+D is used for this because its place on the ASCII table corresponds to the analogous End of File control character, even though the actual EOF control character is not actually transmitted in this case.
Pressing Ctrl+C will generally (it's configurable with stty) generate an interrupt signal (SIGINT) which will be delivered to the processes that are in the current terminal (see man kill; man 3 tcgetpgrp).
answered Feb 5 at 18:30
DopeGhotiDopeGhoti
45.8k55988
2
I'm curious as to the reasoning behind the downvotes to this answer to the question. How would you who have downvoted this improve this answer? Edits or constructive comments are always welcome.
– DopeGhoti
Feb 5 at 19:25
There are a few more steps to Ctrl+D, but I don't feel it's important in this context. The process reading will get a zero back fromread(), signalling an End of File state on that fd. That in turn is due to other things.
– Kusalananda
Feb 5 at 19:52
1
@mosvy I feel this comment isn't helping. How can the short question be improved IYO?
– JohnDoea
Feb 8 at 5:24
1
@mosvy demagogia means loss of time for all of us. I was really serious in my intention to ask how to IYO the difference could be best learned in a question here. I you think the difference should be learned by deepening the learning of each keyboard shortcut, this was indeed helping.
– JohnDoea
Feb 8 at 18:59
1
Digressions aside, I'm hopeful that my tweaks to the answer both clarify what is actually happening and do not diminish from the simplicity of the larger point, which is that it would not be true to say that^Cand^Dterminate stdout and stdin respectively, as asked at the outset of this adventure.
– DopeGhoti
Feb 8 at 20:14
|
show 5 more comments
No, it is not true.
However, it is true to say that Ctrl+D signals an End of Transmission (EOT) event which will generally cause a program reading input to close the input file descriptor.
Ctrl+D is used for this because its place on the ASCII table corresponds to the analogous End of File control character, even though the actual EOF control character is not actually transmitted in this case.
Pressing Ctrl+C will generally (it's configurable with stty) generate an interrupt signal (SIGINT) which will be delivered to the processes that are in the current terminal (see man kill; man 3 tcgetpgrp).
answered Feb 5 at 18:30
DopeGhotiDopeGhoti
45.8k55988
No, it is not true.
However, it is true to say that Ctrl+D signals an End of Transmission (EOT) event which will generally cause a program reading input to close the input file descriptor.
Ctrl+D is used for this because its place on the ASCII table corresponds to the analogous End of File control character, even though the actual EOF control character is not actually transmitted in this case.
Pressing Ctrl+C will generally (it's configurable with stty) generate an interrupt signal (SIGINT) which will be delivered to the processes that are in the current terminal (see man kill; man 3 tcgetpgrp).
answered Feb 5 at 18:30
DopeGhotiDopeGhoti
45.8k55988
edited Feb 8 at 20:17
answered Feb 5 at 18:30
DopeGhotiDopeGhoti
45.8k55988
answered Feb 5 at 18:30
DopeGhotiDopeGhoti
45.8k55988
answered Feb 5 at 18:30
DopeGhotiDopeGhoti
45.8k55988
45.8k55988
2
I'm curious as to the reasoning behind the downvotes to this answer to the question. How would you who have downvoted this improve this answer? Edits or constructive comments are always welcome.
– DopeGhoti
Feb 5 at 19:25
There are a few more steps to Ctrl+D, but I don't feel it's important in this context. The process reading will get a zero back fromread(), signalling an End of File state on that fd. That in turn is due to other things.
– Kusalananda
Feb 5 at 19:52
1
@mosvy I feel this comment isn't helping. How can the short question be improved IYO?
– JohnDoea
Feb 8 at 5:24
1
@mosvy demagogia means loss of time for all of us. I was really serious in my intention to ask how to IYO the difference could be best learned in a question here. I you think the difference should be learned by deepening the learning of each keyboard shortcut, this was indeed helping.
– JohnDoea
Feb 8 at 18:59
1
Digressions aside, I'm hopeful that my tweaks to the answer both clarify what is actually happening and do not diminish from the simplicity of the larger point, which is that it would not be true to say that^Cand^Dterminate stdout and stdin respectively, as asked at the outset of this adventure.
– DopeGhoti
Feb 8 at 20:14
|
show 5 more comments
2
I'm curious as to the reasoning behind the downvotes to this answer to the question. How would you who have downvoted this improve this answer? Edits or constructive comments are always welcome.
– DopeGhoti
Feb 5 at 19:25
There are a few more steps to Ctrl+D, but I don't feel it's important in this context. The process reading will get a zero back fromread(), signalling an End of File state on that fd. That in turn is due to other things.
– Kusalananda
Feb 5 at 19:52
1
@mosvy I feel this comment isn't helping. How can the short question be improved IYO?
– JohnDoea
Feb 8 at 5:24
1
@mosvy demagogia means loss of time for all of us. I was really serious in my intention to ask how to IYO the difference could be best learned in a question here. I you think the difference should be learned by deepening the learning of each keyboard shortcut, this was indeed helping.
– JohnDoea
Feb 8 at 18:59
1
Digressions aside, I'm hopeful that my tweaks to the answer both clarify what is actually happening and do not diminish from the simplicity of the larger point, which is that it would not be true to say that^Cand^Dterminate stdout and stdin respectively, as asked at the outset of this adventure.
– DopeGhoti
Feb 8 at 20:14
2
2
I'm curious as to the reasoning behind the downvotes to this answer to the question. How would you who have downvoted this improve this answer? Edits or constructive comments are always welcome.
– DopeGhoti
Feb 5 at 19:25
I'm curious as to the reasoning behind the downvotes to this answer to the question. How would you who have downvoted this improve this answer? Edits or constructive comments are always welcome.
– DopeGhoti
Feb 5 at 19:25
There are a few more steps to Ctrl+D, but I don't feel it's important in this context. The process reading will get a zero back from
read(), signalling an End of File state on that fd. That in turn is due to other things.– Kusalananda
Feb 5 at 19:52
There are a few more steps to Ctrl+D, but I don't feel it's important in this context. The process reading will get a zero back from
read(), signalling an End of File state on that fd. That in turn is due to other things.– Kusalananda
Feb 5 at 19:52
1
1
@mosvy I feel this comment isn't helping. How can the short question be improved IYO?
– JohnDoea
Feb 8 at 5:24
@mosvy I feel this comment isn't helping. How can the short question be improved IYO?
– JohnDoea
Feb 8 at 5:24
1
1
@mosvy demagogia means loss of time for all of us. I was really serious in my intention to ask how to IYO the difference could be best learned in a question here. I you think the difference should be learned by deepening the learning of each keyboard shortcut, this was indeed helping.
– JohnDoea
Feb 8 at 18:59
@mosvy demagogia means loss of time for all of us. I was really serious in my intention to ask how to IYO the difference could be best learned in a question here. I you think the difference should be learned by deepening the learning of each keyboard shortcut, this was indeed helping.
– JohnDoea
Feb 8 at 18:59
1
1
Digressions aside, I'm hopeful that my tweaks to the answer both clarify what is actually happening and do not diminish from the simplicity of the larger point, which is that it would not be true to say that
^C and ^D terminate stdout and stdin respectively, as asked at the outset of this adventure.– DopeGhoti
Feb 8 at 20:14
Digressions aside, I'm hopeful that my tweaks to the answer both clarify what is actually happening and do not diminish from the simplicity of the larger point, which is that it would not be true to say that
^C and ^D terminate stdout and stdin respectively, as asked at the outset of this adventure.– DopeGhoti
Feb 8 at 20:14
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If not a dupe, at least related: What is the difference in using Ctrl+D and Ctrl+C to terminate cat command?
– Kusalananda
Feb 5 at 18:52