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l01yuk
11-07-2001, 03:37 PM
A lot of people seem to be putting the line:

stty erase ^?

at the top of their scripts to allow users to delete using the backspace key. This is not at all necessary.

In your /etc/bashrc (or equiv) put the following:

# Make sure that delete is set globally as ^?
#--------------------------------------------

ERASE="^?"
export ERASE
stty erase $ERASE

#--------------------------------------------

This should mean that you don't need to add it to scripts any more:-)