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I just use the gold old ^D in an empty prompt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-of-Transmission_character#Meaning_in_Unix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-of

• derefr 7y ago
  That's how you gracefully shut down an SSH session, with the socket close initiated from the remote end (where the shell is running.) \n~. is for gracefully exiting a stuck/hung SSH session (e.g. one where the remote isn't responding to input) without force-killing the SSH client itself (which might do bad things to the process group it lives in.)
• CamperBob2 7y ago
  Unfortunately not all Telnet servers support that. Being the least interesting programmer on Hacker News, I don't always write code to handle Telnet-compatible ASCII input, but when I do, I always support ^D.