How Do You Exit Tail Command in Linux?

2 Answers. In general pressing Ctrl-C sends the ‘interrupt’ signal, aka SIGINT, to whatever is running. It tells the application that that the user wants to interrupt whatever it is currently doing. Many applications will exit when the get that signal, as tail does, others may stop doing something but continue running.

How do you get out of the tail command?

command(cmd); cmd = ‘tail -f log. txt’; ssh. command(cmd); wait for special event to occur… cmd = ‘stop the tail now! ‘ out = ssh.

How do you exit a command in Linux?

To exit without saving changes made:

1. Press < Escape> . (You must be in insert or append mode if not, just start typing on a blank line to enter that mode)
2. Press : <colon>. The cursor should reappear at the lower left corner of the screen beside a colon prompt. …
3. Enter the following: q!
4. Then press <Enter>.