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After typing a bad command in terminal like below, the prompt does not exit. Tried Ctrl+c, Ctrl+z, Ctrl+q. Nothing helps to exit > prompt.

[root@172.17.148.40|eco9]# vi /etc/lru.cfg'
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> vi /etc/lru.cfg
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TBF
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Bash waits for you to terminate the quoted string with another single quote character. So you can either do 'Enter and exit vi in a normal way, or use Ctrl + C to cancel the command.

">" is the default value of the $PS2 variable, a.k.a secondary prompt string.

Eugene Yarmash
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Ctrl+ \ will send a SIGQUIT signal. Try that if Ctrl+C (sends a SIGINT signal) does not work.

Shalini Maiti
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How about Ctrl + D, or just ' and Enter (and then :q to exit vi).

wrwrwr
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Ctrl + C works for me. Anyway, try adding the closing single quote and Enter.

choroba
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