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howto put ctrl chars in bash script
Name: Peter Marshall Date: May 8, 2003 at 05:27:53 Pacific OS: intell CPU/Ram: 256
Comment:
I am trying to put ctrl-d in my bash script. (need to execute a command that needs ctrl-d to end the command). Does anywone know how to put it in the script ? I tried doing the following echo -e "\005" ;did not work ^D ;did not work ^d ;did not work echo ^d ;did not work echo "^D" ;did not work echo `^D` ;did not work
anyway, if you have any ideas, it would be much appriciated.
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