In a moment of brilliance, I executed the command source ~/.bash_history. Fortunately, most of the commands are using vim to edit some file, but there are some scary commands in my history – moving and removing files with relative paths.
Fortunately right now it's stuck in a vim session, however if I suspend or quit it, it's on to the next one. The history file is 1000 lines long.
How can I cancel this command, short of rebooting the machine?
Best Answer
If it's a local machine, start a new terminal and kill the shell in question.
If it's a remote machine, ssh in and kill the shell in question.