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What's the difference between ^C and ^D for UNIX/Mac OS X terminal?
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Mar 15, 2026111827 viewsConfidence Score1%
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Problem
When I try to stop something, I use and sometimes in terminal. What's the difference between the two? Why some program doesn't respond to , but . Why the Terminal.app just quits when I use ?
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^C
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CtrlC tells the terminal to send a to the current foreground process, which by default translates into terminating the application. CtrlD tells the terminal that it should register a EOF on standard input, which bash interprets as a desire to exit.
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