What to do if you cat or tail a binary file and the terminal is garbled

When I tried to look at the binary file with cat, the characters were garbled and I got a cold sweat. I will write a coping method and alias setting that summarizes the information lying on the Web.

Garbled characters

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Remedy 1

reset

Reset the terminal with the reset command. It seems that this may not fix it. In that case, reset ** with a stronger method than the reset command.

Remedy 2

echo ^[c

echo Type "space" "Ctrl + v" "Esc" "c" "Enter".

alias settings

alias clearbin="echo -e '\ec'"

Since it clears what became binary, I simply made it clearbin. I am trying to interpret the escape character with echo -e. e becomes "Esc" and c remains the same.

Trivia (why it's fixed)

I didn't understand why it was fixed in the second solution, so I investigated it.

echo

echo When you press "Space" and "Ctrl + v", it looks like this. "Ctrl + v" is a preparation for inputting "Esc", and nothing is displayed when it is a single unit. It seems that this preparation is necessary because you can not enter by just pressing "Esc".

echo ^[

Then press "Esc" and it will look like this.

echo ^[c

In addition to that, enter "c" It seems that "Esc" and "c" can reset the terminal more powerfully than the reset command. Finally, press "Enter" to finish.

How to represent "Esc"

It seems that "Esc" can be represented in octal or hexadecimal when set to alias.

For octal numbers

alias clearbin="echo -e '\033c'"

For hexadecimal numbers

alias clearbin="echo -e '\0x1bc'"

Helpful articles

About ANSI escape sequences What does printf(“\033c” ) mean?

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