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Greg A. Woods woods@weird.com
Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:05:42 GMT
At Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:43:48 -0400 (EDT), Jeremy Eder <jeder@redhat.com> wrote:
Subject: passing ctrl+z key combination
>
> im looking to pass ctrl+z to a server - console man page says
>
> 1) escape sequence (mine is default 'control-E c'')
> 2) then type \ooo where ooo is a 3-digit octal code for the keystroke.
>
> according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control-Z the octal code for ctrl+z should be 32.
>
> so after typing the escape sequence, typing
>
> \032
>
> does not seem to send a ctrl+z.
>
> any ideas ?
Why not just type <CTRL-Z> plain and simple?
It works for me:
$ console historically
[Enter `^Ec?' for help]
[-- MOTD -- Welcome to Weird consoles!]
#
# cat
^Z[1] + Stopped cat
Of course typing "<CTRL-E>\032" also works for me:
# cat
[quote \032]^Z[1] + Stopped cat
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