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OS X Terminal Cursor Problem

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This morning I bumped into something I've never seen before and I can't seem to find a way to fix it. I was inspecting a large bzipped tarball (e.g. ) and before it completed, I hit to abort the output since I'd seen as much as I needed to see. The output stopped and the prompt appeared. So far, no…

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tar jtf myfile.tar.bz2

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Fix for: OS X Terminal Cursor Problem

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It happens sometime that the shell gets all messed up. I found that sending a reset give me back my prompt. I found 2 ways to do that: Using the mouse to select Shell > Send Reset (command-R) Or typing in the terminal Hope this helps!

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