Re: read + ^V

[Chet Ramey]

Antonio Macchi wrote:
> using ^V to pass an ascii character to read, the behavior is incoherent
> beetween simple read, and read -nx

When using the -n option, bash puts the terminal into character-at-a-time
non-canonical mode, which disables the tty special characters.  When
using read without that option, the terminal stays in canonical mode and
does erase, kill, and literal-next processing.


Chet
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