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I've googled for it but failed to found an answer. I would like to remap my interrupt signal key from ^C to or Delete, what would be the code for it? For example:

stty intr "ESC code"

And back:

stty intr ^C
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maybe Delete would be better than Escape? – 130490868091234 Jul 14 '11 at 9:48
Indeed avilella – A Dwarf Jul 14 '11 at 10:33
See this SuperUser question for the questioner's real problem, which is to do with using the ping command against multiple hosts. – JdeBP Jul 15 '11 at 14:48
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You don't want to do this. The character sequence generated by Esc is also used by the extended keys on the keyboard, so each keypress will be like pressing CtrlC followed by some random characters.

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stty intr \033

This works somewhat, but since \033/Escape is used as, well, escape character, it'll break other stuff.

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maybe Delete would be better than Escape? – 130490868091234 Jul 14 '11 at 9:48
Maybe not. It would drive you nuts editing the command line! – Andy Lee Robinson Jul 27 '11 at 15:37
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