Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:33:06 +0930 From: Wayne Sierke <ws@au.dyndns.ws> To: Chris St Denis <chris@smartt.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Fix corrupted terminal output Message-ID: <1222218186.2581.152.camel@predator-ii.buffyverse> In-Reply-To: <48D98542.6090007@smartt.com> References: <48D98542.6090007@smartt.com>
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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
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