{"id":110,"date":"2009-01-17T16:18:03","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T08:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/?p=110"},"modified":"2009-01-17T16:18:03","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T08:18:03","slug":"backspace-keys-in-unix-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/backspace-keys-in-unix-computers\/","title":{"rendered":"Backspace Keys in UNIX Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Backspace keys not working in UNIX servers and computers? (Or probably just in computers, because if that&#8217;s a server, you&#8217;re probably the System Admin and you probably know what to do).<\/p>\n<p>I have a post about &#8220;<a title=\"unix backspace keys\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/unix-tip-backspace-key-does-not-work\/\">Backspace Keys Not WOrking in UNIX<\/a>&#8221; sometime back and I noticed that there are some people who search about it.. well, this post is a supplement for it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll list a few key strokes or key combinations that is equal to the backspace keys (when backspace keys is not working on your terminal).<\/p>\n<p>We wont be talking about the different terminals used or terminals available on your UNIX computers alright? That&#8217;s too geeky and because we are cool dudes and individuals, let&#8217;s just do the keys, enumerate and put it is a piece of paper as &#8216;cheats&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some alternative backspace keys if backspace is not working:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the delete key &#8211; try pressing the delete key and see if it goes back a character to delete it<\/li>\n<li>Shift + Backspace &#8211; if pressing backspace produces some weird character and does not delete what you want, try pressing while &#8220;Shift&#8221; is pressed down.. see what happens.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Esc&#8221; then do the &#8220;vi&#8221; editing commands &#8211; sorry if you don&#8217;t know how to use &#8216;vi&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Shift + Delete &#8211; same as Shift + backspace<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There you go.. that&#8217;s not a lot is it? Try one and see which one works ok?<\/p>\n<p>Let me know how it turns out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backspace keys not working in UNIX servers and computers? (Or probably just in computers, because if that&#8217;s a server, you&#8217;re probably the System Admin and you probably know what to do). I have a post &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[115,114,371],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips","tag-backspace-key","tag-keyboard","tag-unix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}