On 08/09/11 06:59, Charlie wrote:
Something that happens occasionally, how do I get out of it without killing the shell? Sometimes I type something, slip and ahead of the command I type a character accidentally like '. The shell responds with> I can type anything I want into that shell and it responds with> How do I get out of that without killing the shell and bringing up a new one?
Well, you have opened a quoted piece of text and the shell is waiting for the closing ' character, so you could close it by typing another ', but this may lead to something other than what you wished to happen.
Or you could just abandon the line with Ctrl-C. -- Dom