Silly command crashes my console

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Hello, I foolishly ran the following command:

Code: 
ee /var/log/messages | less

and it appeared to make the console unresponsive; ctrl+c didn't do anything and all I could see was mangled text on the screen. It wasn't a huge problem as I could simply switch to another console using ctrl+alt+F2 but was there a way to make the original console become responsive again?

Thanks.
 
:) interesting.

I don't use ee myself, but going through ee(1) man page solution is quite easy. Press ^c (control-c) and type quit, hit the enter and then press Q.

In other words first quit ee and then quit less.
 
matoatlantis said:
In other words first quit ee and then quit less.
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Less will get killed when ee is killed because of a broken pipe.
 
SirDice said:
Less will get killed when ee is killed because of a broken pipe.
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When I tried it I had to hit Q to quit from less. I see "(END)" after closing ee, but less is still running (double-checked with ps).

So I guess less has a problem to deal with this and stays up.
Anyway that is the way how to deal with it :)
 
I don't understand the logic behind using [CMD=""]less[/CMD], [CMD=""]more[/CMD], etc with [CMD=""]ee[/CMD]. These cmd's should be used with [CMD=""]cat[/CMD], [CMD=""]grep[/CMD], etc (something that prints to the console and not something that edits the file).
 
Thanks guys, as suggested by matoatlantis, pressing control-c, typing quit, hitting ENTER and then pressing Q made the console usable again.
 
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