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Sure, the default is overridable, and the character has no magic effect when found in a binary file, but there's a reason Ctrl-D was chosen as the standard keys
by raldi 13y ago
Sure, the default is overridable, and the character has no magic effect when found in a binary file, but there's a reason Ctrl-D was chosen as the standard keystroke sequence to end a stdin transaction, and it has everything to do with the fact that "D" shows up next to "end of transmission" in `man ascii`.
- thwarted 13y agoThank you for clarifying something that no one was disputing or event mentioned.
- qu4z-2 13y agoYeah, I hate it when people point out interesting things I didn't know before too.
- thwarted 13y agoI'm sure raldi can repeat, again, making it 3 times, that control-d means end of transmission and that's why it was chosen for signalling end of stdin, on a thread about how to type the control characters.