^C

(thing) by Omicron Wed Apr 23 2003 at 19:35:22

^C is another way of expressing the command Ctrl+C.

On *nix based systems, ^C is used to interrupt the flow of a running program or script, causing it to end its execution. This can be useful for programs that aren't responding or to interrupt the flow of an 'rm -rf /' before it does too many naughty things.

It can also be a shortcut to the Copy command. Ctrl+X is a shortcut to the Cut command.

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