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Linux Terminal: CTRL+D is like pressing ENTER (hackarcana.com)

submitted 3 days ago by tuna@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Honestly I had no idea what ctrl+d even did, I just knew it was a convenient way for me to close all the REPL programs I use. The fact that it is similar to pressing enter really surprised me, so I wanted to share this knowledge with you :)

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[–] tuna@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

not true. try this:

$ date<C-d>

bash did not terminate stdin, because when i press enter it still runs the command, and my shell continues to work as normal!

you can also try this:

$ bash --noediting
$ date<C-d><C-d>

and it will print the date.

so something else is happening here! thats what the link talks about in detail

[–] ramius345@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

For some reason my mobile client didn't make the article link immediately obvious. That's actually really interesting. Apparently I was under the same common misconception. So the shell in this case is choosing to continue after detecting the flush.

[–] tuna@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago

Ohh I gotcha. Honestly no sweat, its kind of just a bit of fun trivia really :)