To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 11:16:18 -0400

> In my script, I always use 'stty sane' to set my tty to a sane stage, after
> temporally changing any tty attributes.
>
> But for recent month or two, my BS key often stop working, only today did I
> finally track it down to the 'stty sane' statement:
>
>  $ stty sane
>
>  $ asdsf^H^H^H
>
> I.e., my BS key is producing ^H instead of erasing previous letter afterward.
>
> So what should I do? I still like to use 'stty sane' to reset my tty, and I
> still want my BS key to be configured as ^H, instead of something else.
>
> Can I have both?

SANE=$(stty -g)
stty "$SANE"

Bill Marcum

-g, --save
       print all current settings in a stty-readable form