Command: stty - set terminal parameters Syntax: stty [option ...] Flags: (none) Examples: stty -echo # Suppress echoing of input stty erase # # Set the erase character to # When given no arguments, stty prints the current terminal parameters. It can also be used to set the parameters, as follows: cbreak - Enter cbreak mode; erase and kill disabled echo - Echo input on the terminal nl - Accept only line feed to end lines raw - Enter raw mode; no input processing at all tabs - Output tabs (do not expand to spaces) erase c - Set erase character (initially backspace) int c - Set interrupt (SIGINT) character (initially DEL) kill c - Set kill line character (initially @) quit c - Set quit (SIGQUIT) character (initially CTRL-\) even - Use even parity odd - Use odd parity [5-8] - Number of bits per character [110-9600] - Baud rate default - Set options back to original values The first five options may be prefixed by - as in -tabs to turn the option off. The next four options each have a single character parameter separated by a space from the option. The default option sets the mode and the four settable characters back to the values they had when the system was booted. It is useful when a rogue program has messed them up. For convenience you can specify control characters as a two character combination: ^H for instance is a backspace. The form ^? is a DEL.