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title: "How to stop Erlang shell safely?"  
description: "How to stop Erlang shell safely?"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2016-03-09  
updated: 2016-03-09  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/34051/how-to-stop-erlang-shell-safely  
category: "erlang"  
tags: ["erlang"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How to stop Erlang shell safely?

I am new in Erlang programming. I want to know the ways to stop Erlang [shell](https://www.mindstick.com/interview/22998/why-erlang-shell-always-prints-ok-at-the-end-of-the-output), I [google](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/43833/google-lighthouse-and-how-is-it-changing-the-way-we-development-and-design-websites) it and find that using **Control+**C on Erlang shell we can **[abort](https://www.mindstick.com/interview/888/how-do-i-abort-the-current-xmlhttprequest)** the Erlang shell, but I think it will stop the Erlang Shell forcefully.Can you tell me how can I stop the Erlang Shell Safely?


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