On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Siri Amrit Kaur wrote:

> What command do I type to clear a screwed up terminal screen and return it to
> a normal prompt?
>
> I did Ctrl+Alt+F1 and was typing something, hit Enter, and lost the prompt.
> All I have is: " > " at the beginning of each line. Doesn't matter what I
> type, when I hit Enter I just go back to " > ". I read the man pages for
> term, tput, clear, and some others I forget.

I know this was already solved.

The " > " sounds like it was probably the PS2 secondary prompt (which
defaults to "> ". Control-C should also abort this current command line to
get back to normal prompt.

Answering the original question on how to clear a terminal, I often use
"reset". And if that doesn't work, I use:

printf "\033c"


 Jeremy C. Reed

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