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What does Ctrl+C do in Ubuntu Terminal?

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Mar 15, 202622566 views
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Does anyone know what Ctrl+C and Ctrl-V do in Ubuntu Terminal? Since they don't copy/paste, is there any particular functionality to these buttons? When I press those shortcut, it writes and . I'm worried because I was working on a little PHP program, and I'm editing from terminal. I'm a control fr…

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Ctrl+C is abort in UNIX: In POSIX systems, the sequence causes the active program to receive a SIGINT signal. If the program does not specify how to handle this condition, it is terminated. Typically a program which does handle a SIGINT will still t…

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