# Weird irb behavior osx

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/weird-irb-behavior-osx/126053>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 15, 2008, 3:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/weird-irb-behavior-osx/126053 "2008-01-15T03:19:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![WindhamS\_Kristopher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/e480ec/32.png) [@WindhamS\_Kristopher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/WindhamS_Kristopher)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 3:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/weird-irb-behavior-osx/126053/1 "2008-01-15T03:19:34Z")

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Just wanted to point this out.  
Don’t know if anyone else is experiencing this.  
occasionally, I will accidentally hit control C to escape out of irb  
prompt…  
When doing this in 1.9 the next command I type returns ^C  
Seems odd…  
Any idea why this happens this way?

slog:~/ruby19/bin UniX$ /Users/UniX/ruby19/bin/irb  
irb(main):001:0\> RUBY\_VERSION  
=\> “1.9.0”  
irb(main):002:0\> require ‘java’  
^C  
irb(main):002:0\> ^C  
irb(main):002:0\> wtf?  
^C  
irb(main):002:0\>