Re: How do I clear a terminal screen?

Not sure exactly but there are a couple of things that will make the
command line do that. Unfinished quote like " or ' will leave the
command waiting for the closing quote.

Another thing is a case, do or if block without esac, done or fi.

Then there are a few commands that will leave you in that state like
mail, grep with no arguments, and a few others.

Bill Wesson was trying to help you out of a command like mail. ctrl-d
helps you out of mail or most of the other problems as well.

Hope this helps clear some things up.
-Bill Warner

On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 08:13 -0700, Siri Amrit Kaur wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 January 2005 08:01 am, Bill Wesson kindly wrote:
>
> > Are you sure you are at a terminal prompt?
> > Try:
> > quit
> > exit
> > help
> >
> > Bill
> >
> Problem was I couldn't get a terminal prompt- I lost it- so none of those
> commands worked. Ken recommended "Ctrl+d" and that got a prompt back. Thanks
> for trying to help me.
>
> Siri Amrit
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