9/5/2001 6:23:34 PM, jennifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>When I'm using bash, I sometimes hit the ' (comma) key
Backquote. Comma's the , key. :-) Basically it's waiting for another one, so
it can read the stuff between
them. It's for command substitution, if you want to fill in stuff in a line:
$ echo "There's `ls|wc -l` files in this dir."
> instead of enter and then get brought into a loop I can't get out of. I imagine this
>is some sort
>of feature that would allow you to enter extra long command sequences but the
><enter> key does not activate the command, nor can I find anyway to get out
>of the loop.
Try Ctrl-D (to end it) or Ctrl-C (to cancel it). You probably want Ctrl-C,
but you'll see the other elsewhere, like
when you use "mail" or other command-line kinda programs. I remember getting stuck in
"cat" for a while, like you did.
:-) Happens to everybody at some point, I'm sure.
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