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Dear experts,

We are using Linux OS i.e Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.0

I log to the server using putty & default shell is

Code:

 -bash4.2$ echo $SHELL
/bin/bash

special character automatically gets returned in my putty.

Code:

 -bash-4.2$ ~

Also this special character gets returned to the Oracle database running on the server

Code:

SQL>^[[28~

It's weird because it affects badly our work & this happens even we open files using an editor using 'vi' as well.

Appreciate your reply.

Did you set putty to the right character set/font?

I have set putty with correct character font.

Since there is no reply on this thread closing it. We need urgent solution for us, reposting this query at Operating Systems --> Linux to see if any one replies.

As stated there this thread is neither closed nor moved.

If you have valuable information pertaining your problem state it here.

As per the threads problem: it looks like a prompt of some sort. Investigate the setting of "PROMPT_COMMAND" and "PS1", "PS2", "PS3" and "PS4".

My suspicion is that you put some configuration into a "~/.profile" (where it doesn't belong to at all) instead of a "~/.bashrc" and this is coming back to you now. But without a better description of your problem and the respective data this is just a wild guess.

I hope this helps.

bakunin

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