Re: Break out of program in interpreter

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2013/5/14 Jose Torre-Bueno <jtorrebueno@cox.net>:
> Yes that does work.  However
>
> while true do os.execute('echo hello world') end
>
> cannot be stopped with ^C.  The only way to end it is to
> kill the whole terminal session.

I assume you are talking Unix/bash.

You can pause the program with ^Z, and kill the background job.