stty - sane Very handy if you do something silly like cat a binary file without piping it into strings -a This restores the terminal settings and sanity resto

stty - sane Very handy if you do something silly like cat a binary file without piping it into strings -a This restores the terminal settings and sanity restored. Note you will often find yourself typing without seeing anything, least until you enter and execute the sane. Also asvise the following usage ctrl+c a couple of times to clear anything out of the input buffer queued up. stty -sane all good from here onwards and good time to play with od and remember the strings -a pipe next time.