How to interrupt stuck bash tab completion?
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Published on 2010-05-13T08:22:59Z
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Case:
- A Windows share mounted using samba over a flaky VPN connection (sometimes very slow, sometimes it drops)
- When doing tab-completion on filenames, my bash shell can freeze up if the VPN is slow or dropped when I am attempting the tab completion.
Example:
$ cp myfile.zip /mnt/winbox-c/Progr<tab> key pressed here
Is there a bash key I can press to get bash out of its hung state when something like this happens?
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