Re: The ls command
On Fri, 31 Oct 2025 at 22:04, Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
> > > And one can make xterm on trixie (not that old) crash:
> >
> > > xterm -k8 -e 'printf "\x9a\x85\x08"; sleep 2'
> > Thanks for the runnable demo!
> >
> > I *really* like demos for shell related discussions, because a big part of
> > my learning process about the shell came from people providing little
> > runnable examples like this. I think it's a great way to communicate.
> >
> > So I tried that on bookworm, and it crashed as you say.
> It doesn't crash for me (on Trixie). It causes xterm to write some
> information to the screen, and then 2 seconds go by, and then the
> xterm closes cleanly (because no shell was requested).
Oh thanks, sorry, I misused the word "crash", it didn't crash, it just
closed the same as what you saw.
I mistakenly assumed "crash" because of the context, and I didn't
understand why until you explained. Thanks for pointing that out.
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