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iSH on the Apple iPad is a lifeline between my tablet and my Linux workstation. It’s terrific for testing Bash scripting ideas. But several times now I trapped myself in cat because I can’t enter CTL+D. More recently I got stuck in paste because I couldn’t enter CTRL+Z.

I know about the CTRL icon. But everything I’ve tried to complete the key combination failed. The only way out was to uninstall iSH and reinstall with loss of directories and files.

Is there something don’t understand? Or is this a bug?

Many thanks,

LRP

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    It might be worth explaining in your question what you're doing to try and generate Ctrl/D (etc.) Commented Aug 14 at 19:18

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If iSH is really supposed to operate like a Linux shell, I would assume that any keyboard shortcuts are the same as those used in Linux. In that case, I would try Ctrl+C for terminating cat. As for Ctrl+Z, my experience is that Linux terminals doesn't ordinarily recognize that key combo in any relation to pasting.

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  • I think the reference to paste was that they'd pasted into stdin (eg cat) and couldn't enter the Ctrl/D necessary to trigger EOF Commented Aug 15 at 11:09
  • You may be right @ChrisDavies, but it's hard to tell from the question. "More recently..." seemed to me to suggest that the paste bit and the cat bit were distinct issues. Commented Aug 15 at 11:17
  • Here’s one example: Commented Aug 15 at 21:02
  • localhost:~# cat Hello Hello ^[D Commented Aug 15 at 21:19
  • The ^[ chars pop up when I touch the iSH control icon. Commented Aug 15 at 21:21

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