Using reset command

Using reset command

After accidentally view a binary file in the command line, i.e., user@ubuntu:~# cat /path/some/file, and the prompt shows scrambled text like this:

You need to type reset to get correctly encoded command line. I haven't figure out how to reset from ssh session. So if you know how please let me know.

Using tar

Uncompressing files

tar xvf file.tar tar zxvf file.gz tar zxf file.tgz tar xjvf file.tar.bz2 gunzip -c file.tar.gz | tar xf - bunzip2 file.bz2

Options:

• f means file
• z means use zip/gzip
• v means verbose

Compressing files

tar cvf /tmp/backup.tar /home/username

• c means create file