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In grub terminal (prior to system booting, in this situation), I have entered cat <a file that was a program? something not human-readable>.

Screenfuls of characters are now being output. Every now and then it stops, outputting --MORE--. What key/s do I press to make it quit cat? I've tried q , Q , Ctrl + Z , Ctrl + C , Ctrl + D , n , N and random others that I don't remember.

Kevin Bowen
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I’m not familiar with that scenario but usually CTRL + | sends the quit signal (and produces a core dump)

AEM
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F. Gil
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If you are in grub the system is in read-only mode and nothing is being written to the disk so the quickest method of restarting is to hold the power button for 10 seconds until your system powers off. Then press the power button once to restart grub.

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