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| Shells
| portability
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| UUOC
| ancient
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| ../Various
| HOME
$() vs )
| IFS
| using siginfo
| nanosleep
| line charset
| locale
The motivation for this page was curiosity and interest in historical correlations.
Find out stty defaults with
stty(1). Calling it without arguments shows the differences from the defaults.
You might notice unusual defaults if you are logged in remotely
by telnet(1), but not with ssh(1).
sshd(8) tries to "export" your settings to the new session.
Shell profiles are a common way to change these settings.
In the following, "^X" means "<Ctrl-X>". See also an article in a.f.c, <62097@bbn.BBN.COM>, about a possible origin of the "^"-notation.
An article from Christian Weisgerber with some background about the BackSpace vs. Delete issue.
Various defaults:
| OS | INTR | ERASE | SUSP | KILL | LNEXT | QUIT | EOF | cs8 | istrip | parenb |
| Arbitrary choice: | ^C | DEL | ^Z | ^U | ^V | ^\ | ^D | + | + | - |
| Version 7 [3] | DEL | # | N/A | @ | N/A | - | ? | |||
| System III [4] | DEL | # | N/A | @ | N/A | - | ? | |||
| 3BSD, 4.0BSD [5] | DEL | # | N/A | @ | N/A | - | ? | |||
| 4.1c/4.2/4.3 BSD [6] | ? | ? | ? | |||||||
| 4.4BSD [7] | - | + | ||||||||
| HP-UX A.08.07-B.09.03 [2] | DEL | # | ( ) | @ | N/A | - | ||||
| HP-UX B.10.10-B.11.22 [2] | DEL | # | ( ) | @ | ( ) | - | + | |||
| SINIX V5.2 | DEL | ^H | N/A | ^X | N/A | ^| | - | + | ||
| MUNIX 3.2 (SVR3.2) | ^B | ^X | N/A | ^Y | ^Z | - | + | |||
| FreeBSD 4.3 [1] | - | |||||||||
| Linux 2.2.9 | - | |||||||||
| NetBSD 1.5 | - | |||||||||
| OpenBSD 2.9/3.1 | ? | - | + | |||||||
| SunOS 3.5, 4.1.4 | - | + | ||||||||
| SunOS 5.x | ^| | - | + | |||||||
| Unicos 9.0.2.2 | ^| | |||||||||
| EP/IX 2.2.1AA | DEL | ^H | ^| | |||||||
| OpenServer 5.0.6 | DEL | ^H | ( ) | - | ||||||
| IRIX 4.0.5 / 5.3 / 6.5 | DEL | ^H | ||||||||
| OSF1 V4.0, V5.1 | ^H | |||||||||
| Minix 3.1.1 | ^H | |||||||||
| AIX 3.2.5 | ^H | |||||||||
| AIX 4.3.2 | ^H | + |
[1] FreeBSD 4 provides also an ERASE2 capability ("^H")
[2] HP-UX uses ^Z for "SWTCH"
[3] <sys/tty.h>
[4] <termio.h>
[5] <sys/tty.h>
[6] <ttychars.h>
[7] <sys/ttydefs.h>
About this table:
Some notes:
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