The ctrl+c shortcut sends an interrupt signal to the running process. This signal can be intercepted by listening for the SIGINT event. If you want to close the process, you must explicitly call process.exit().
process.on("SIGINT", () => {
console.log("Ctrl-C was pressed");
process.exit();
});
1---2name: bun-listen-for-ctrl-c3description: Listen for CTRL+C4---56# Listen for CTRL+C78The `ctrl+c` shortcut sends an *interrupt signal* to the running process. This signal can be intercepted by listening for the `SIGINT` event. If you want to close the process, you must explicitly call `process.exit()`.910```ts process.ts icon="https://mintcdn.com/bun-1dd33a4e/nIz6GtMH5K-dfXeV/icons/typescript.svg?fit=max&auto=format&n=nIz6GtMH5K-dfXeV&q=85&s=5d73d76daf7eb7b158469d8c30d349b0" theme={"theme":{"light":"github-light","dark":"dracula"}}11process.on("SIGINT", () => {12 console.log("Ctrl-C was pressed");13 process.exit();14});15```1617***1819See [Docs > API > Utils](/runtime/utils) for more useful utilities.
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