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> Also ^| (as in, "control pipe") which is a synonym for ^\. At least for me, | is faster to hit than \

How? Do you have a keyboard where | isn't Shift+\?

On a Swedish keyboard, | is altgr+< (between shift and z), and \ is altgr++ (between 0 and ´).

I have a Norwegian keyboard, where as you can see, pipe has its own key to the left of "1" (above Tab):

If you wrote the for loop interactively, you can suspend it with ^Z and kill its jobspec with 'kill %n' (for n usually = 1).

If it's part of a script, your script probably wants to trap SIGINT.

Not a nice way, but the way that works best for me is:

^Z

fg

^C

the ^Z kills the loop, the fg and ^C cleans up the currently running one.