Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:29:21 -0700
From:      Stephen Hurd <hurds@sasktel.net>
To:        Chris St Denis <chris@smartt.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Fix corrupted terminal output
Message-ID:  <edd67b3071ff.48d92771@sasktel.net>

next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Try this one:
perl -e 'print "\x0f"'

----- Original Message -----
From: Chris St Denis <chris@smartt.com>
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-
> unsubscribe@freebsd.org"




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?edd67b3071ff.48d92771>