How to come out of any comand?

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How to close any command. Like normally we do ctrl+c in terminal to come out of any command. When i do tail command, i am not able to come out, i have to open another tab/windows

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Just verified this and it works as you would expect.

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I tried tail command on a very large file, it terminated normally and printed the expected results.

Could you please post the tail command line you were using? Are you tailing a binary file? A screenshot may also provide help for me to identify the problem.

Thanks,

Yang

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tail -100f file.log
When i run above command, it shows me running logs. I am not having any problem with what tail commands is showing. It is showing me correct last 100 lines. But when i press ctrl+c to come out of it, it doesn't come out. It keeps on showing me logs.

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If your file.log was being changed aggressively, then yes, you may not stop the tail to print new contents immediately, depending on your network status, you have to wait 6 or more seconds before the command actually comes out.

I did a test under extreme condition with command yes, it simply pours out endless lines of y on screen very fast. Core Shell took 12 seconds to come out, while system Terminal.app took 15 seconds, both ran on the same Mac, and logged in a remote server with poor connectivity.

Could you please try the command tail -100f file.log with Terminal.app and ssh command?

Thanks,

Yang