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Sometimes when I expect to get a prompt... I don't. An example: I was reading a man page (haha, when am I not reading a man page?!), pressed q (my pager is less), and then... nothing happened. Another example: typed ps -ef, saw the usual stuff, no prompt at the end. Tried ^c, ^[ and neither did anything useful. Am I missing something totally basic here? (I don't know if this is helpful, but I think this doesn't happen in screen. I'm not *sure* that's the case, though.) Thanks!
Distribution: Slackware & Slamd64. What else is there?
Posts: 1,705
Rep:
The version he has is the one that comes with the Slackware 10.2 installation.
I did bash --version and I got the same results as him. Anyway I think it's user error (not understanding how to get out of man) and maybe some other stuff too, and not a problem with bash.
"a/bash-3.0-i486-4.tgz: Fixed an obscure bug where suspending the first process
started in a new shell would cause it to hang.
Thanks to Grant Coady for discovering and fixing this bug."
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