[ILUG] Bash problem with backspace

[Enda]

stty erase ^H  (as in pressing the delete key not typing ^H )

Usually a problem with the terminal tool rather than a particular
shell distributed by any distro, are you connecting in remotely or on
the console?

 -Enda.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Finlay" <linuxexpert at eircom.net>
To: <ilug at linux.ie>
Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 1:13 PM
Subject: [ILUG] Bash problem with backspace


> I'm writing a big collection of scripts to make it
> super simple and bulletproof to set up an NIS/NFS roaming profile
> network with SuSE on all computers.
>
> My only problem is that have to restart the scripts any time i make
a
> typo because backspaces are interpreted as ^H and taken into the
> variables like that.
>
> I thought that this only happened in some of the harder shells. I
don't
> rememeber ever having this problem in bash b4 I got SuSE.
>
> Help Appreciated
>
>
> --
> Mark Finlay
> "sisob's linux eXPerience"
> http://sisob.dyndns.org
> Registered Linux User: #243436
>
>
> --
> Irish Linux Users' Group: ilug at linux.ie
> http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription
information.
> List maintainer: listmaster at linux.ie
>
>