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Comment by dllthomas

6 years ago

I don't understand what you're saying here; could you expand a bit?

I'm not who you replied to, but I hardly ever need to use tilde escape sequences to quit ssh. I just terminate the session from inside itself with the `exit` command.

  • The most common case I’ve hit issues is the remote server is down or blocked but the connection hasn’t yet terminated so exit is no longer possible.

    • I've occasionally had things crash in ways that have swallowed ctrl-c. More recently I've learned to still try ctrl-z in those cases, as that often still works (but not always).

      None of this is very common, but I found myself opening another terminal and killing the ssh process probably tens of times before I learned about the ~ escapes.

    • Yeah, that's the only time I've had to use the escape sequences. However that happens to me only once a year or so (but maybe I don't use ssh as often/in the same ways as others).