How to reset a broken TTY?
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00:00 Question
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01:06 Answer 2 (Score 47)
01:23 Answer 3 (Score 20)
01:36 Answer 4 (Score 11)
02:11 Thank you
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ANSWER 1
Score 54
Usually, running reset resets the terminal. Some key bindings from .inputrc might be lost, though.
ANSWER 2
Score 26
You can try the ANSI reset command:
printf "\033c"
ACCEPTED ANSWER
Score 22
Run echo ^v^o, that is echo and then Ctrl-v and then Ctrl-o, Enter. You will not see the Ctrl-v. It will display as echo ^O. Ctrl-v sets it into verbose mode, passing through control characters, and the Ctrl-o will reset the terminal.
ANSWER 4
Score 14
My terminal didnt display any characters I typed. None of the other tricks worked. This one works:
stty sane
Worked for me. I sometimes have a terminal in an unresponsive state, but none of the other suggestions could give me the output back again. The other suggestions I tried, but didn't work:
echo ^v^o
reset
printf "\033c"