When I run this command: rm /tmp/jerry.txt rm: remove regular file ?/tmp/jerry.txt?? I get the a with the carrot on top... How do I get back to the normal characters ? echo $TERM linux Thanks, Jerry
On 05/23/2016 12:09 PM, Jerry Geis wrote:> How do I get back to the normal characters ? > > echo $TERM > linuxAre you logged in on a console, or remotely using a terminal emulator? If the latter, which one? I'd expect your TERM to be some xterm variant.
> How do I get back to the normal characters ?Have you tried "reset"?
On 05/23/2016 02:09 PM, Jerry Geis wrote:> When I run this command: > rm /tmp/jerry.txt > rm: remove regular file ?/tmp/jerry.txt?? > > I get the a with the carrot on top... > > How do I get back to the normal characters ? > > echo $TERM > linuxThis may also be related to your terminal and supported language sets. You may be using unicode UTF-8, where your terminal (I'm assuming you've ssh'd in with putty or something) is only configured for latin-1 or iso-8859-1. "echo $LANG" and set your terminal emulator (like putty) appropriately. -- Jim Perrin The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org twitter: @BitIntegrity | GPG Key: FA09AD77
On Mon, 23 May 2016, Jerry Geis wrote:>When I run this command: >rm /tmp/jerry.txt >rm: remove regular file ?/tmp/jerry.txt?? > >I get the a with the carrot on top... > >How do I get back to the normal characters ?Your locale specifies an encoding that your terminal doesn't understand, i.e., they are out of sync, e.g., LC_CTYPE includes ".UTF-8" but your terminal expects Latin1 or vice-versa. Change your terminal to match LC_CTYPE or change LC_CTYPE to match your terminal (perhaps even unset it). /mark