Command in Unix/Linux systems that allows you to set and print options for your terminal.
Questions tagged [stty]
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How to use internal variable in tmux send-keys command?
Is there any way can let me do things like bind-key b send-keys "stty cols #{pane_width} rows #{pane_height}"
I use TMUX.
I often need to use ssh to login to CentOS servers which has no resize command.
I cannot install command in those servers.
The…

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make stty raw -echo works with zsh or fish
I would like to know if someone has a way to make stty raw -echo works on fish or zsh.
I used it to upgrade a reverse shell but when I do fg i can't press "enter" etc
I got this result :
Thanks !

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GNU Screen terminal line settings
I want to use GNU screen to monitor to a serial USB port like this:
$ screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200
But I need to tweak a few terminal line settings. I have made several attempts but none seem to work. For example, to send NL+CR for a newline…

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Transmitting binary data throught ttyACM
Good afternoon,
I have a peripheral device which communicates over usb over virtual serial port. Everything works well under Windows with generic ACM serial driver, for example with:…

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How to permanently disable XON/XOFF settings for stty?
I am working on an Embedded device with a serial console. I have observed that the console hangs suddenly and nothings seems to respond. The same cable when connected to another device works fine. After a lot of digging, I came to know about the…

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.inputrc override Control+W
How do I override Control+W in bash within my .inputrc? The following on its own doesn't work:
"\C-w": forward-word
It does work when I add stty werase undef but then the 's' key is mysteriously disabled!

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linux + minicom + FT232RL USB-to-UART adaptor send Carriage Return (CR) instead of Linefeed (LF)
Hello to this wonderful community.
I use a computer with MX Linux as OS. I want to access a device with a serial/UART console (Specifically, the device is a minimal computer made from 74-series ICs. See…

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Bash: read input available (was any key hit?)
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I am using Bash 5 and have a long-running loop which needs to check occasionally for various keys the user may have hit. I know how to do this using stty — see my answer below — but it's more ugly than ought.
Essentially, I'm looking for a…

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Bash: pause and continue execution with spacebar
I am running code that produces a huge amount of output during more than an hour. During execution, I am logging my output to a file using tee. However, the huge amount of output that is still sent to my terminal is a bit cumbersome, so I made a…

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How can I set the baud rate automatically when a device connects?
I can use stty -F /dev/ttyUSB0 19200 to set the baud rate whenever I want. But I'd like to set it automatically when a device is plugged in. Is there some sort of configuration file I can put this in?
I'm doing this on a Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr)…

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Is there any stty option that puts the terminal in raw mode but still lets it generate a signal for e.g. CTRL+Z
There are many options for stty. What I want is based on stty raw -echo: I'm wondering if I can add an option that makes the terminal driver send a signal when it sees e.g. ctrl+z, instead of having my program handle this keypress.

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Emacs Tramp stuck at 'Found remote shell prompt' during file fetch
I recently set up a new FreeBSD machine and cannot seem to connect via Emacs Tramp. It stays stuck at "Tramp: Found remote shell prompt on 'broken.example.com'". (hostnames changed for anonymity)
I upped the debugging to 10 as I've seen suggested…

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PhpSerial: No stty available -- cant seem to get it working
I'm working on a project which involves reading and writing to a Serial board, using the UART pins on my Raspberry Pi. However, I have hit a brick wall already. Any time I try use PhpSerial I always get the error:
Fatal error: No stty available,…

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How to read return when using stty -icanon
I have a loop after setting stty -icanon time 0 min 0 to prevent read from blocking.
It works okay except it cant read the enter/return key.
Is there any way to read the enter key in this mode, or any other way my code could be written ?
Relevant…
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Where do stty commands go in bash dotfiles? .bash_profile?
I'm trying to ensure that the flow control, xon-xoff, Control-S Control-Q feature
is turned off in all of my terminals/shells/tmux (so that I can
reliably use Control-S for something else)
It should work in X, urxvt, tmux, on consoles, ssh, ...…

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