Unable to use stty in Mac's Zsh

Question

Unix Power Tools -book recommends to use the following command if you do not want to get any notification of running process

stty -topstop

or

stty -topstop

Both commands give me

stty: illegal option -- topstop
usage: stty [-a|-e|-g] [-f file] [options]

How can you use the command in OS/X's Zsh?

Answer 1

This does not seem to be a zsh issue. This is an issue with the specific implementation of the command stty on your system.

To investigate a new command, remember:

 $ man [command]

There are also manual pages online, so if your particular system does not have the man pages installed, you can still get the needed info.

Many modern utilities have built-in help info. Try

$ [command] -h 

or

$ [command] --help

to figure out what options the [command] you're interested in has on your system.

I am also suspecting that you have a typo. Do you really mean "topstop"? This does not seem to be a valid option.

Answer 2

Before running the command, you must tell zsh to unlock your terminal:

ttyctl -u
stty -tostop

Answer 3

stty doesn't seem to have a -topstop option; is it supposed to be -tostop? Use

man stty

for details on the stty command and its options.