How to set Ctrl C as break

[nfaber]

I am on Solaris 8. My Ctrl C key sequence is not working. When I have say a "find" command running, I want to be able to Crtl C out of it when it finds what I want, however the Ctrl C is not working, it just writes ^C to the screen and continues on with the find.

Any help is appriciated.

 

[SteveR77]

You should be able to set the option for the break to be -

stty intr \^C


Just bear in mind that the find command because it is streaming output to the screen may be hard to interrupt at the point you desire.

It may be a good idea to pipe the find command to a grep for the string or substring that you wish to capture.


Hope this helps you,


Steve

 

[nfaber]

Steve,

Thanks for the reply, however it does not work. It seems ^C is set for my user login, but not after I su - to root. I tried running the stty intr \^C as root, no help.

 

[PHV]

After the su - root, try this:
stty intr ^C

Hope This Help, PH.
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