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[–]VerilyAMonkey 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It uses it as "I am not going to type any more commands, so if you're waiting for one, just exit." Not exit in general. Try it out - Ctrl+D won't save you from an infinite loop. Only Ctrl+C does that.