There are quite a few control sequences available on Linux systems— many I use routinely, and some I’ve only just recently discovered— and they can be surprisingly useful. In today’s post, we’re going to run through a series of them and take a look at what they do and how they might be useful.
To start, unless you’re brand spanking new to the command line, you are undoubtedly familiar with the ctrl-c sequence that is used to terminate a running command. In print, this same sequence might be expressed as ^c or control-c and sometimes the “c” will be capitalized, but the expression always means “hold the control key and press the key specified — with no shift key or hyphen involved.
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