On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 09:12:22 -0700, Siri Amrit Kaur wrote: > On Tuesday 04 January 2005 06:25 pm, Matt Alexander kindly wrote: > > 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. > > > > reset > > > Thanks to everybody who replied. > > FWIW, "reset" didn't work; I had tried it. What happened was I dropped a book > on the keyboard and hit a bunch of keys at random. I hadn't entered a command > at all. The cat has done it for me in the past, too. I have made the mistake > of "grep" w/out an argument, and some other goofs as well. From now on I'll > remember Ctrl+c or Ctrl+d. Lifesavers! If you had a process waiting for input then Ctrl+c should kill it. Ctrl+d would then just exit the terminal. But I've encountered situations where the terminal was goofed up for whatever reason and I didn't want to logout, so I would type "reset" to fix the terminal and continue on with my work. ~M -- Get Firefox! http://getfirefox.com/ --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss