Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

When ever I use the backspace key when typing input in any of my perl scripts, backspace shows up as ^H (I think) is that something I can fix, and if so, how ? it's a linux system, if that helps... Thanks...

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Re: backspace key
by mitd (Curate) on Jul 22, 2001 at 10:56 UTC
    Assuming that you are using bash add this to .bash_profile in your home directory.

    <code>stty erase '^h'<code>

    mitd-Made in the Dark
    'My favourite colour appears to be grey.'

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Re: backspace key
by ariels (Curate) on Jul 22, 2001 at 16:09 UTC
    stty erase '^h' (from the shell, not from Perl!) works on any reasonable UNIX shell (it's not a builtin). Specifically it works on all sh and csh derivatives I've met.
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Re: backspace key
by MZSanford (Curate) on Jul 22, 2001 at 11:51 UTC
    ksh is : stty erase ^H
    remeber the immortal word's of Socrates who said, "I drank what ?"
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