reset

Reinitialize the current terminal

$ reset

$ reset -q

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

reset reinitializes the terminal to its default state, clearing the screen and resetting terminal settings. It is similar to tset but performs a more complete reset, 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. It also resets various terminal modes to sane defaults.

-q

Display terminal type without reinitializing

Set control characters to defaults

Set erase character to ch

Set interrupt character to ch

Set kill character to ch

Do not send terminal initialization strings

Do not display control characters

Print terminal reset string to stdout

Print shell commands to set TERM

Display version

Do not resize 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)