shell question

[mikeparks]

There's been times when I accidentally issued cat on a binary file. If it is a large file, it will output garbled characters, and then my prompt is garbled, and everything I type afterwards. I know there is a way to recover, I remember someone telling me how a long time ago, but I just can't seem to recall the command. Does anyone know?

[PLBlaze]

Just use clear command to clear the screen...hope this helps.

[Craig McPherson]

If clear doesn't work, use reset. I think clear just issues a clearscreen character, whereas reset resets the terminal paramters and clears the screen, which should fix any weird stuff that's going on.

[EscapeCharacter]

i had the same thing happen to me a couple weeks ago and someone suggested adding "\^O" to your PS1 that way you will never have that problem