How to stop a command or start over, in a terminal
 

I asked how to start over in a terminal before and I got an answer and it works but... The command I use now is "Ctrl + \" and like I said it works but after the command stops and I'm back at the prompt anything I enter, type, whatever, after that makes no sign. If I type in cd /. . . it's invisible.

Does anybody know how to start over in a terminal and then be able to see what you type.

I have FC-5 and use KDE.

Thanks,

royeo

I use "Ctl"-c to stop a command and then an up arrow to reshow the previous command.

sometimes " # tput clear " and " # reset " works if you can't see anything you are writing.

if you type history it will give you a list of commands that you have typed.

In addition to what's mentioned above, you can use smart job control features of your shell to make life eaiser for you. To do job control for bash, you can: use Ctrl-Z for stopping/pausing the foreground process, type `bg' to run a stopped process (but run it in the background), or type `fg' to run a stopped process in the foreground. The command `jobs' will give you a list of jobs and their numbers. If you have many jobs, you can use the aforementioned numbers after `fg' and `bg' to indicate what job you are applying the command to.

Also to start a job in the background you could type the command and place a ampersand after it IE ls -al & would run this job in the background

Ctrl+\ sends a SIGQUIT to the process, which kills it (and if it's changed the terminal parameters, then your screen will be bodged).

It's generally better to use ctrl+c (SIGINT) to cause a clean exit, you'd usually only use ctrl+\ when ctrl+c doesn't work (and after that, do a reset if necessary as pablob mentioned).

Also note that ctrl+\, ctrl+c etc are just the default keys for these purposes, you can change them with stty (stty -a will show you the current terminal settings).