DrGrizz's blog

Nov 15, 2025

Leave a SSH session that hangs

I work regularly over SSH with embedded devices I need to reboot, and sometimes the connection just hangs when I hit reboot. Nothing can get out it and for long time my solution was to close the terminal tab and open another one.

But there is a keyboard shortcut to force an exit. From the frozen session, hit in order: 'Enter', '~' and '.'

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