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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Backspace = ^H Date: 23 Mar 1997 19:50:50 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 44 Message-ID: <5h41iq$ii7@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5h2c01$4i2@reader.seed.net.tw> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37630 ronald@trace.com.tw wrote: > How can I set it, that the key 'Backspace' will do a backspace > rather than type ^H ? stty erase ^H (where you can actually hit the Backspace key instead of typing ``^'' and ``h'', both are equivalent) The opinions whether backspace (^H, 0x08) or delete (^?, 0x7f) should be used as the default rubout character differ vastly between people, so it's impossible to provide a default that would satisfy everyone. > In Linux I can do a tab to finish the file name, does such function > exist in FreeBSD as well? (tab does not work for this.) That's a feature of the shell. Shells providing this feature include tcsh, bash, zsh, and ksh. All of them are available in the ports collection. The default /bin/sh doesn't provide this feature at all, but it provides command-line editing (set -o emacs). The /bin/csh which is also installed by default provides only a crude command-line history, but provides filename completion (using the ESC key, but you gotta ``set filec'' first). > In Linux you can pipe a command to |less this seems not work in > FreeBSD. Is there another way to limit the output (last |less)? Oh sheesh... `less' is a pun on the word `more'. more has been a standard Unix command for ages. (Of course, less is also available from the ports collection.) Also, specifically to last(1), note that you can do something like ``last -20'' in order to limit the display to the 20 most recent login records. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)