1. Preface

Your terminal on Linux or OSX may end up to a bad state.

• You cat a binary file to terminal
• You interrupt pdb or some other application reading lines in a bad way

2. Symptoms

• New lines don’t work
• You cannot see your own typing to terminal
• Backspace stops working

3. Fix

Type command

stty sane

This may fix some problems without needing to restart the terminal. More info.

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