Terminal Command *` What is it?

[geo_c]

Not sure where to put this question.

I was in a terminal with Midnight Commander open, and I saw some dust on my keyboard and decided to brush it off with a little brush that I have. About 5 minutes later I tried to run a command from MC which informed me that a shell command was already running. I used control-O over to the shell and found this:

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root# *'

So I hit control-C to break off.

Does anyone know what the asterisk and reverse apostrophe (tilde perhaps?) command does? I'm wondering if I should revert back to an earlier savefile now.

[Burunduk]

It probably was:

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root# *`
>

Note the '>' prompt.

This command does nothing. It waits for you to actually finish entering it (waits for a closing backtick).

* may be a command if a first file (as it is sorted) in the current directory is named as a valid command, for example:

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root# mkdir test
root# cd test
root# touch echo foo
root# *
foo

The moral of this story is: jwm-xdgmenu doesn't care about Terminal=true. At least on fossapup. (Tried to install mc.)

[Grey]

The moral of this story is: jwm-xdgmenu doesn't care about Terminal=true. At least on fossapup. (Tried to install mc.)

Yeah. Therefore, in the desktop file we need to run the console program clearly and specifically: Exec=rxvt -e someshit

[geo_c]

It probably was:

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root# *`
>

Note the '>' prompt.

Yes, you're right, that's exactly what it was!