Terminating a Shell

To terminate a shell, run the exit command or type ^D.[4]

➜ exit

or if you’re running a Terminal window, click the close box.

[4] Control-D sends an “end of file” signal to any program reading from standard input. In this case, the program is the shell itself, which terminates.

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