to_erl program output

Question

When I try to connect to an Erlang shell using the following command:

to_erl /tmp/erlang.pipe.1

The output of the command is something like this:

Attaching to /tmp/erlang.pipe.1 (^D to exit)

(search)`':     
(node@mypc)1> 

What is that "(search)`':"?

I use the following command to start the Erlang node to attach to:

run_erl -daemon /tmp/ /tmp "erl -sname node"

Answer 1

I think it is the shell search history mentioned in item OTP-10739 here. I think this should be considered a bug and be reported as such to the erlang-patches mailinglist.