Why does Ctrl-D (EOF) exit the shell?
Are you literally “ending a file” by inputting this escape sequence, i.e. is the interactive shell session is seen as a real file stream by the shell, like any other file stream? If so, which file?
escape-characters
Which shells support ANSI-C quoting? e.g. $’string’
I have a shell script that uses the following to print a green checkmark in its output:
Is there any objective benefit to escape sequences over tput?
In people’s ‘.*rc‘ files I see online or in various code, I tend to see a lot of people who manually use ANSI escape sequences instead of using tput.
Question about behavior of control key shortcuts
I am confused about how Ctrl-key combinations work in terminal. In bash man page, there are various combinations such as:
Trouble in script with spaces in filename
I’ve got a script that scp’s a file from remote host back to local. Sometimes the file names contain spaces. scp does not like spaces in its file names. For some reason my attempts at handling the spaces have not resulted in the correct scp path.
The difference between e and ^[
Gilles wrote:
How to escape a single quote?
end the single-quoted string, add escaped (either by backslash or double quotes) single quote, and immediately start the following part of your string:
Why does ‘cal’ use weird 08 / ^H / b terminal code for highlighting and how does that work?
When you run cal on Linux, the output for the current month will reverse video highlight the current day. When I send that output to hexdump -c, I get some interesting results:
Issue with column command and color escape codes
I’m colorizing the header of a table formatted with column -ts $'t'
Is Vim immune to copy-paste attack?
You should never paste from web to your terminal. Instead, you should paste to your text editor, check the command and then paste to the terminal.