Kill a frozen SSH session to save a terminal April 1st, 2008
If any of your SSH sessions seems te be in limbo and you want to regain control of your terminal just use the ~. shortcut (that's SHIFT-TILDE-DOT).
And no, this ain't no stinking April fools joke ;-)
Updated: just when I thought comments on this little tip would be pointless Xach from Planet Lisp mailed me that this escape sequence only works when you do it after a nice fresh enter. So if you were wondering why this sometimes doesn't work, consider yourself educated now.
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We don't need no stinking VPN! December 19th, 2007
a.k.a. 'cheating a little using a nice .ssh/config file' :
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