Trapped in freebsd-update fetch with strange End display

FreeBSD noob here. When I run freebsd-update fetch on a fresh install of FreeBSD 12.0, it ends with, well, End, without taking me back to a prompt. How do I exit this screen?

Solution 1:

It looks like you're in a pager, such as less or more. Try pressing the q key (a mnemonic for Quit).

Solution 2:

the freebsd-update script uses PAGER from env, irritates me, so I do the following

in ~/.cshrc

setenv PAGER less 

change to

setenv PAGER 

and in ~/.profile

PAGER=less
export PAGER

change to

PAGER=
export PAGER

if PAGER doesn't exist, the freebsd-update script sets it itself, so you need to leave the export with no value. it will obviously affect all scripts using PAGER too, but regardless, I'd rather use less intentionally.