[Shell] Viewing a binary file: Terminal illegible

Last update on November 18, 2008 07:29 AM by netty5
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[Shell] Viewing a binary file: Terminal illegible






When you unintentionally display contents of a binary file (e.g. cat /bin/mount | more), it may happens that the terminal displays characters which are not printable, causing the display of totally unreadable special characters.
In such cases, if a CTRL-L is not enough simply type: 

echo [CTRL]+v [Esc] c [Enter]
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