Issue with @ in .profile

[Grayh]

How to set the stty 'kill' to something other than the '@'....

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi:

The manpages for 'stty' would tell you how, but (for example):

# stty kill '+'

To return to standard values:

# stty sane

Regards!

...JRF...

[Grayh]

I am not sure if I am clear or not but ... just to double check..

when I use the @ symbol in the terminal window .. It seems the OS interprets the @ special and wants me to escape the @ if I ment it literally.

What I'm thinking is this problem can be fixed with proper .profile settings for the user.
Could you confirm this by suggesting to me what my .profile would look like in order to avoid this issue?

[Grayh]

Thanks JRF...

Should I need to make any changes in the .profile for the changes to be permanent.....

If so plz advise

[Ganesan R]

Hi Grayh,

Yes. you need to put it in global profile(/etc/profile) or specifi user profile(/~HOME/.profile) to make it permanent.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again):

On my servers, 'stty -a' shows:

kill = ^U

Regards!

...JRF...

[OldSchool]

the actual command would be:

stty kill ^U

(thats Cntrl-U simultaneously), and is what mine is set to.

[Ganesan R]

Hi,

>>James.

On my servers, 'stty -a' shows:

kill = ^U <<<

"kill = ^U" is the default terminal setting.

Grayh, you may need to set like below in your profile.

stty kill "+"

or

export KILL="+"
stty kill $KILL

someone can correct me if i am wrong

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again):

Let me be clear, yes, 'kill = ^U' is a default setting. I used 'kill = +' *only* as an example! I really doubt that you want to use that setting!

Actually, the setting for 'kill = ^U' is done in the standard root profile. You "should" have something like:

stty erase "^H" kill "^U" intr "^C" eof "^D"

Regards!

...JRF...

[Grayh]

Thanks every One