SHOWKEY(1) SHOWKEY(1) NAME showkey - echo raw keystrokes back at you in a printable form SYNOPSIS showkey DESCRIPTION This program puts your terminal in raw mode, eats keystrokes, and prints them back it you in a recognizable printed form. It will be useful if you're not certain what various keyboard keys are sending. Non-printables (and whitespace) ASCII characters are displayed as cookies surrounded by < >. The cookie will always contain an ASCII mnemonic (NUL, SOH, STX, ETX, EOT, ENQ, ACK, BEL, BS, HT, LF, VT, FF, CR, SO, SI, DLE, DC1, DC2, DC3, DC4, NAK, SYN, ETB, CAN, EM, SUB, ESC, FS, GS, RS, US, SP) and may also contain a control-key formula. Characters with the high bit set are shown as <ALT-xxx>, where xxx is gen- erated as previously described. You terminate the program with your shell interrupt or quit characters. BUGS Under some (but not all) X window managers you may see the following mes- sage: "Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console". If this happens, go root and try again. AUTHOR Eric S. Raymond esr@thyrsus.com 2024-02-11 SHOWKEY(1)
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