

M L Sreekanth says: THANKS ALOT…… Every time i used to close the window or putty to come out of the session. on german keyboards the ‘]’ is a composed key, but the same key position as on english keyboards works: use + there. Thomas says: Hi, great post, could you please mention, that this also work with other key mappings? e.g. So the steps you have mentioned for windows work for linux as well.Ĭpascu says: Good to know, changed the title accordingly 🙂

#HOW TO USE TELNET COMMAND HOW TO#
I had opened a telnet connection and had no idea how to close it until I came across this! By the way, I am logged in Ubuntu. You can change this default telnet prompt key by starting telnet like this: telnet –e p 192.168.1.81(this will change the telnet prompt key to lowercase ‘p’) 12 Responses to “How to end a telnet session (Windows, Linux, Mac)” Open the telnet prompt by holding down the ‘Ctrl’ key and push the ‘]’ key.This article assumes that you’ve started a telnet connection through the Windows command prompt (you can do so by typing: “telnet address port”).Īnswer: To end your current telnet session you must reach the telnet prompt and type quit. The question How to send the escape character on OS X terminal? could be seen as a duplicate (more generic version) of this question, since the OP’s problems are basically the same. PS: Answer reproduced here for your convenience, since google took me to this question first, and none of the other answers here was sufficient for my case. Quote from answer here: All creds to him. Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish: ctrl + å.The correct key is typically the key to the right of P or the next key after that. On international keyboards the ] character is often not a single key, and needs to be replaced with some other key. You’ll be taken to the telnet prompt, where you can type quit or simply q. You should then enter the telnet console, where you can enter quit to leave telnet. It should have printed something along the lines of: How do I stop it in Windows? Shockingly, Ctrl + C doesn’t work.
