What is the difference between ctrl z and ctrl c in command line

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Hi everyone,

I have been using ctrl z and ctrl c in several time. Can somebody tell me what is the actual meaning of these two and when to use?

Thank You

Feb 12, 2020 in Linux Administration by akhtar
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Hi@akhtar,

Generally, these two commands are used to stop the process. First we will try with ctrl c and if it will not work, than we go with ctrl d to kill the process. But there are a small difference between these two commands. 

ctrl c is used to kill a process. It terminates your program.

[root@master ~]# ping goo.gle
PING goo.gle (67.199.248.12) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from cname.bitly.com (67.199.248.12): icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=98.7 ms
64 bytes from cname.bitly.com (67.199.248.12): icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=20.3 ms
64 bytes from cname.bitly.com (67.199.248.12): icmp_seq=3 ttl=55 time=144 ms
64 bytes from cname.bitly.com (67.199.248.12): icmp_seq=4 ttl=55 time=58.5 ms
^C
--- goo.gle ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3015ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 20.316/80.505/144.417/46.151 ms

ctrl z is used to pause the process. It will not terminate your program, it will keep your program in background. You can restart your program from that point where you used ctrl z.

[root@master ~]# ping goo.gle
PING goo.gle (67.199.248.12) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from cname.bitly.com (67.199.248.12): icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=22.5 ms
64 bytes from cname.bitly.com (67.199.248.12): icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=124 ms
64 bytes from cname.bitly.com (67.199.248.12): icmp_seq=3 ttl=55 time=37.4 ms
^Z
[1]+  Stopped                 ping goo.gle
[root@master ~]#

You can restart your program using the command fg. It means it will return your job in foreground again.

[root@master ~]# fg 1
ping goo.gle
64 bytes from cname.bitly.com (67.199.248.12): icmp_seq=4 ttl=56 time=24.2 ms
64 bytes from cname.bitly.com (67.199.248.12): icmp_seq=5 ttl=56 time=95.5 ms
64 bytes from cname.bitly.com (67.199.248.12): icmp_seq=6 ttl=56 time=19.3 ms
64 bytes from cname.bitly.com (67.199.248.12): icmp_seq=7 ttl=56 time=24.0 ms
^C
--- goo.gle ping statistics ---
7 packets transmitted, 7 received, 0% packet loss, time 91406ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 19.342/49.685/124.594/39.327 ms
[root@master ~]#

Hope it will clear your doubt.

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Thanks.

answered Feb 24, 2020 by MD
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On my computer it not show like you comment above. I run it in powershell console and powershell as administrator when I press ctrl D or Z it nothing happened. it just keep running. Yes and ctrl C it stop the process.On the other hand in the command prompt when I press ctrl D or Z it also nothing happened but when I press ctrl C it stop and in the new command it show like this ^D^Z. Do you have any ideas on that case?best regard!

This will work properly in Linux system. And fg program is not available in windows system I think.

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