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How to send the escape character on OS X terminal?

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Problem

Connecting with telnet looks like this: I'm running this on the OS X Leopard terminal. Question is, how do I send this escape character? On a Linux terminal I'd try ESC-5 or CTRL-5, but I cannot figure out how to do this on OS X.

Error Output

$ telnet some.host
Trying 10.1.2.3...
Connected to some.host.
Escape character is '^]'.

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The means ctrl + right bracket. As strange as that is, it works. You'll be taken to the telnet prompt, where you can type . On international keyboards the ] character is often not a single key, and needs to be replaced with some other key. The corre…

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