How do I exit the systemctl status command's output? [duplicate]
If you mean
systemctl status
at the end it shows this:
├─systemd-journald.service
│ └─318 /lib/systemd/systemd-journald
├─fwupd.service
│ └─1703 /usr/lib/fwupd/fwupd
├─systemd-networkd.service
│ └─395 /lib/systemd/systemd-networkd
└─cups-browsed.service
└─2918 /usr/sbin/cups-browsed
lines 172-194/194 (END)
... then press a q
for quit.
As steeldriver noted in comments: use --no-pager
if you do not want this behaviour see details.
systemctl status --no-pager
Check what systemctl
is running in another terminal:
$ pstree -pa $(pgrep systemctl)
systemctl,2100 status
└─less,2101
And from man less
:
q or Q or :q or :Q or ZZ
Exits less.
systemctl status | cat
does the job as well. You're just redirecting the output of systemctl status
to cat
which in turn dumps everything on the console without any pagination