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Asked: 2015-05-25 01:31:29 +0800 CST

Enter prints "^M" in the terminal

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When I press Enter or Backspace in the terminal, I get this:

Would you like to create one now? (yes/no): no^M^?^?^?^?^?^?^?^M^?^?

What's up with this?

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1 Answers

  1. This happens because the program that reads the user input can't handle special characters. The terminal is in raw mode. If the program is a script you can use read -e to use the Bash readline function that can handle special characters.

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