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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting echo backspace Post 302479616 by methyl on Saturday 11th of December 2010 09:46:58 PM
Old 12-11-2010
Further to Corona688.

The settings in "stty -a" matter.

On a conventional DEC vtxx terminal (or emulator) this unix command will turn the backspace key into a destructive erase key.
Code:
stty erase "^H"

 

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stty(2) 							System Calls Manual							   stty(2)

NAME
stty(), gtty() - control terminal device (Bell Version 6 compatibility) SYNOPSIS
Remarks These system calls are preserved for backward compatibility with Bell Version 6. They provide as close an approximation as possible to the old Version 6 functions. All new code should use the and calls described in termio(7). DESCRIPTION
For certain status settings and status inquiries about terminal devices, the functions and are equivalent to and respectively (see ioctl(2) and termio(7). RETURN VALUE
and return the following values: Successful completion. Failure. is set to indicate the error. ERRORS
If or fails, is set to one of the following values: [EBADF] is not a valid file descriptor. [EFAULT] points to an invalid address. WARNINGS
Obsolescent Interfaces and are to be obsoleted at a future date. SEE ALSO
stty(1), exec(2), ioctl(2), sttyV6(7), termio(7), tty(7). TO BE OBSOLETED stty(2)
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