reset

reset [-IQVcqrsw] [-e ch] [-i ch] [-k ch] [-m mapping] [terminal]

reset reinitializes the terminal to its default state. When invoked as reset (as opposed to tset), it sets cooked and echo modes, turns off cbreak and raw modes, turns on newline translation, and resets unset special characters to their default values before sending terminal initialization strings. This is useful when the terminal becomes garbled from viewing binary files or other corruption.The command reads terminfo data for the terminal type (from TERM environment variable) and sends appropriate initialization sequences. If neither -c nor -w is given, both are assumed.

-q

Display terminal type without reinitializing

Set control characters and modes

Set erase character to ch

Set interrupt character to ch

Set kill character to ch

Do not send terminal initialization strings

Do not display values for erase, interrupt, and line kill characters

Print terminal type to stderr

Print shell commands to set TERM

Report ncurses version and exit

Resize the window to match the size deduced via setupterm

Specify a mapping from a port type to a terminal

May not fix all terminal corruption; in some cases closing and reopening the terminal is necessary. On some systems, reset is a symbolic link to tset. Terminal type must be correctly set in TERM variable.

Part of the ncurses package, derived from original BSD tset command. Essential recovery tool since early Unix for restoring terminals after displaying binary data or when escape sequences corrupt the display state.

tset(1), clear(1), stty(1), tput(1)