in reply to STDIN Odd Bevahior in Linux Environments

Terminal setting. From your terminal, type

stty erase BACKSPACE-KEY

Replace BACKSPACE-KEY with you pressing the backspace key.

Your shell is not expecting the character that your terminal is sending to perform the backspace function.

Update: Fixed typo.

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