On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 09:59:57AM +0100, anthony gennard wrote: > I am looking at the contents of my boot log file; when trying to get out of > the very long file I thought Ctrl + c should do it - it does not and I > cannot > find any way. I wanted to try tail and head so see how they do. Can anyone > please help me.
How are you "looking at" the file? I would suggest using less. You get out of less by pressing q.