Re: Fix corrupted terminal output
Andreas Davour wrote: On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Chris St Denis wrote: Occasionally, I accidentially cat a binary file or a directory casing the terminal output to be corrupted with text looking like (don't know if this will make it through the mail cleanly) E ??? ?? ?. 2# To fix this normally I just close the window and open a new ssh connection, but I am wondering if there is a more clean way to do this. I've tried reset(1), but it doesn't seem to help any. What termnial emulator are you using? KDE Konsole have an "Edit->Reset & Clear Terminal" menu alternative that usually manages to clear such problems up for me. /Andreas I use putty ssh client (on windows). I had thought it was a console change rather than terminal editor specific. I'll try the things people have suggested here next time it happens. Thanks for the suggestions. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Fix corrupted terminal output
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 17:09 -0700, Chris St Denis wrote: > Occasionally, I accidentially cat a binary file or a directory casing > the terminal output to be corrupted with text looking like (don't know > if this will make it through the mail cleanly) > > E ??? ?? ?. > 2# > > > To fix this normally I just close the window and open a new ssh > connection, but I am wondering if there is a more clean way to do this. > I've tried reset(1), but it doesn't seem to help any. The terminal has probably switched to an alternate charset mode. I recently encountered this situation while using tmux and found that issuing 'reset' was ineffectual. To recover from this try issuing a \017 character to the terminal, or the escape sequence: ^[[m. How you can do that most easily depends on which shell you're using at the time, so you can try: /bin/echo ^v^o (^v is ctrl-v ^o is ctrl-o) /bin/sh -c "echo -e \\017" /bin/echo ^v^[[m /bin/sh -c "echo -e \\033[m" Thanks go to Nicholas Marriott for pointing out this solution. Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Fix corrupted terminal output
Try this one: perl -e 'print "\x0f"' - Original Message - From: Chris St Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 5:09 pm Subject: Fix corrupted terminal output > Occasionally, I accidentially cat a binary file or a directory > casing > the terminal output to be corrupted with text looking like (don't > know > if this will make it through the mail cleanly) > >E ??? ?? ?. >2# > > > To fix this normally I just close the window and open a new ssh > connection, but I am wondering if there is a more clean way to do > this. > I've tried reset(1), but it doesn't seem to help any. > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
