[SOLVED] How to get back on prompt...?

climaon · 02-20-2013, 06:55 PM

(in terminal) i keep getting
>
>
>
no matter what i type and press enter
>
same symbol appears
am not able to get back on prompt....

jkirchner · 02-20-2013, 07:04 PM

You may have started a command and it is waiting for you to finish. Hit control+d or a control+z and it should come back.

ntubski · 02-20-2013, 07:09 PM

You probably want control+c, as in this thread.

chrism01 · 02-20-2013, 10:59 PM

As per ntubski for a soln; its usually caused by accidentally opening quotes eg " or ' and then not closing them.

shivaa · 02-20-2013, 11:28 PM

It might had happened because you typed some command and mistakenly put a backslash "\" at the end. So as suggested above, use CTRL+C to exit from it and return to regular prompt.

Code:

~$ some_command \
>
>
> CTRL+C
~$

ntubski · 02-21-2013, 09:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shivaa

Code:

~$ some_command \
>
>
> CTRL+C
~$

A backslash only asks for one more line:

Code:

~$ true \
>
~$

Code:

~$ true \
> \
> \
> \
>
~$