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

From	Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window?
Date	2016-09-05 16:10 +0200
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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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How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-09-05 13:50 +0200
  Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window? Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2016-09-05 14:30 +0200
    Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-09-05 15:20 +0200
      Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window? Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2016-09-05 15:40 +0200
        Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-09-05 16:10 +0200
          Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window? Charlie Kravetz <cjk@teamcharliesangels.com> - 2016-09-05 17:10 +0200
            Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2016-09-05 17:20 +0200
              Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window? Dutch Ingraham <stoa@gmx.us> - 2016-09-05 18:20 +0200
                Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2016-09-05 18:40 +0200
              Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window? Charlie Kravetz <cjk@teamcharliesangels.com> - 2016-09-05 18:30 +0200
                Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window? Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2016-09-05 21:40 +0200

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