Re: Terminal messed up after exiting bash

[Ryan Cunningham]

This isn't clear to me. Are you using the Almquist Shell to execute BASH to run 
your script, or is BASH already running when the script is executed?

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> On Sep 8, 2014, at 1:17 AM, Jan Rome <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'd like to report an obscure bug I came across in pfsense which runs on top 
> of FreeBSD.
> 
> If I run a bash script in which I have
> 
> read -r -n1 -p "prompt: "
> 
> and instead of providing input, i ctrl-c the script,
> 
> the ash shell doesn't recover the terminal properly; backspace echos ^? and 
> the only way to delete characters is to hold shift and press backspace. Also, 
>  if I use the -s switch for the read command in the bash script, the problem 
> gets even worse with the cursor not moving anymore as I type and the text I 
> type not being visible at all.
> 
> A solution was provided by pgas from #bash on irc.freenode.net, where I solve 
> this by trapping the ctrl-c signal and do 'stty cooked' before exiting, which 
> seems to give expected behaviour.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Jan
>