Unable to exit Terminal

I recently moved to Mac and I realize I cannot exit or kill the terminal session with `exit` command in the terminal? is there a way to do it?

Posted on Nov 9, 2018 4:26 AM

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Posted on Nov 11, 2018 2:21 PM

As you were told already command-Q will quit the Terminal application.


You can still type exit at the prompt and close a shell, but that does not quit the Terminal. I suppose you come from Linux; now there if you have multiple terminal windows and type exit in one of them it won’t close the other ones. Maybe in Linux that is seen as multiple applications. In the mac even if you have many terminal windows there is just one instance of the Terminal application.

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Nov 11, 2018 2:21 PM in response to saviour1232

As you were told already command-Q will quit the Terminal application.


You can still type exit at the prompt and close a shell, but that does not quit the Terminal. I suppose you come from Linux; now there if you have multiple terminal windows and type exit in one of them it won’t close the other ones. Maybe in Linux that is seen as multiple applications. In the mac even if you have many terminal windows there is just one instance of the Terminal application.

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