There's a whole bunch of other characters you can call prefixed with the Tilde (~) as well. My favorite is often ~^Z (That's tilde+Control-Z), which puts the S

There's a whole bunch of other characters you can call prefixed with the Tilde (~) as well. My favorite is often ~^Z (That's tilde+Control-Z), which puts the SSH session in the background and drops you back to the host machine. You can hit ~? for a list. One other very, very useful one is ~#, which lists all forwarded connections - if you've setup X11 Forwarding or any port forwarding it lists the details for you. Of course - if you're multihopping this all works as well. You'll need to add a ~ for each machine in the loop though. E.g. if I hop from workstation -> server1 -> server 2... ~^Z drops me to workstation shell. ~~^Z drops me to server 1 shell.