Doing that is how you end up with binary data being interpreted as escape sequences, either mangling the screen or, when unlucky, putting your shell in a seemin

Doing that is how you end up with binary data being interpreted as escape sequences, either mangling the screen or, when unlucky, putting your shell in a seemingly unresponsive state. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/79684/fix-terminal-after-displaying-a-binary-file https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/79684/fix-terminal-...