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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting ksh: hash (#) at beginning of a line exits the shell Post 302605201 by rpaskudniak on Tuesday 6th of March 2012 11:24:23 PM
Old 03-07-2012
Thank you, j.

I should have ended my initial post with "Don't tell me it's a bug!" Then I would have started this post with "I asked you not to tell me that." Smilie

Quote:
Originally Posted by jlliagre
This is a known bug fixed in the last ksh release (ksh93u+).

11-09-20 A bug with SHOPT_EDPREDICT when neither vi or emacs was enabled for lines beginning with # when in a multibyte locale has been fixed.
A bug?!! Imp-Possible! Smilie That is indeed disappointing.Smilie
HMM.. Perhaps there is some way to explicitly block this SHOPT_EDPREDICT option. Ubuntu's update manager is going to be a bit shy about including the 93u+ update all that fast.

OK, where can I download an installable package of ksh93-u+ for Debian/Ubuntu ?
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suspend(1)							   User Commands							suspend(1)

NAME
suspend - shell built-in function to halt the current shell SYNOPSIS
sh suspend csh suspend ksh suspend DESCRIPTION
sh Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell). csh Stop the shell in its tracks, much as if it had been sent a stop signal with ^Z. This is most often used to stop shells started by su. ksh Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell). ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
csh(1), kill(1), ksh(1), sh(1), su(1M), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 suspend(1)
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