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exit

Terminate a Process

Terminate a process. Or if none are running, quit the shell, ie. quit the interface program.

Synopsis
There are slight variations depending on the shell you use. (n) indicates the status with which to run the exit command Not indicating a status tells exit to quit out of the most recently-called process. Or, the shell itself if no other processes are running.

RETURN VALUES
The exit() function never returns.