Special Symbols after command execution..

[sankarsr]

Hi All,

Good Morning.

I used the following command in UNIX. "grep 5674 *" . It has given some file names and matching names. At the end it started displaying some special symbols. symbols means small lines, squares etc..

After that I typed "clear" command. I could not understand what I have typed, but after hitting enter key, it was excuted successfully. I have given command "ls". it displayed some symbol output. I copied that from EXCEED terminal and pasted it on a notpad. It is showing correct information means in alphabets.

I thought the screen display mode or something like that is changing after using grep on that folder.

could you please tell me any command which will help me to revert back to my original mode. Currently I am closing that terminal and opening a new terminal.

Thanks,
Sankar.

 

[MaheshRathi]

Hi,
Try "reset" command or "tput reset" command. I hope, this should help.

regards,
Mahesh

 

[sankarsr]

Sorry.. Both the commands are not solving the problem. Still the screen is remaining in that mode.

Have Great 'n' Wonderful Day ...

Thanks & Regards,
Sankar.