Due to the vagaries of virtualbox's clipboard I ended up pasting a huge logfile into the terminal instead of a small snippet of text.At this point, as the log file contains many newlines etc. it goes absolutely mad trying to execute each line as a command... as you may imagine this is both undesirable and can take some time.Ctrl+C doesn't work here as it just moves on to the next line of the pasted file - so what (if anything) is the magic Vulcan nerve pinch required to stop the terminal completely?
Key combo to Abort accidental massive paste-into-terminal mistake
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