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Re: Working with ssh's escape character



Try hitting tilde followed by period and see what happens within an ssh 
login shell.  The tilde is the key to the left of the 1 key just 
shifted.

On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Regid Ichira wrote:

>   I had difficulties getting ssh(1)'s ESCAPE CHARACTERS to be recognized
> from within a login shell over ssh.  In particular, sometimes the escape
> character was not recognized as such.  I was able to find in gmane a
> similar issue for a Gentoo user from a few years ago.  I don't have
> that gmane URL handy.
>   Do you find the below patch acceptable?
> 
> --- a/usr/share/man/man1/ssh.1.gz       2012-04-19 21:47:00.933890166 +0300
> +++ b/usr/share/man/man1/ssh.1  2012-04-19 17:20:24.000000000 +0300
> @@ -866,6 +866,11 @@ A single tilde character can be sent as
>  or by following the tilde by a character other than those described below.
>  The escape character must always follow a newline to be interpreted as
>  special.
> +With a login shell, one might issue a single new line character to prepare
> +the correct conditions for ssh to catch the escape character.
> +If the escape character is cought by the remote application, perhaps
> +it is echoed back by a login shell, then it will not affect the
> +underline ssh channel.
>  The escape character can be changed in configuration files using the
>  .Cm EscapeChar
>  configuration directive or on the command line by the
> @@ -913,6 +918,8 @@ option is enabled in
>  Basic help is available, using the
>  .Fl h
>  option.
> +Pressing the return key twice will close the command line after it
> +was started from a login shell.
>  .It Cm ~R
>  Request rekeying of the connection
>  (only useful for SSH protocol version 2 and if the peer supports it).
> 
> 
> 

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