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Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window?



On 9/5/2016 8:35 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 08:13:03AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
Thank you.
Sometimes harware reset is the only thing.
The cp command was crudded up by human error ;/

Your ^C would eventually be honoured by cp. The result will be an incomplete
copy, but the filesystem should be in a consistent state. Performing a hardware
reset could result in filesystem corruption (which a journalled filesystem
would correct: but not something like FAT32 as commonly used on USB sticks).


<GRIN> promptness of abort was higher priority than file system integretity.
I date from 8085 being a new device ;/



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