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Can no longer type [
Authored by: kaih on Aug 08, '04 08:55:39AM
I've applied these suggestions (creating ~/.inputrc with the suggested content) and editing the Window Settings in Terminal, to re-enter what was already there. What happens now is that I can't type the [ character at all... If I hit the [ key, the shell seems to ignore it, and the following character (are they being interpreted weirdly by readline?) and if I hit [ twice, I still don't get even a single [ character...
I do have the occasional use for [ on the command line - I wouldn't like to have to give up, say, entering ranges to download with curl like:
curl -O http://server.domain.com/directory/file[1-4].tar.gz
Does anyone else have this problem, or know what I can do about it?
Thanks,
Kai

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