Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Re: [BLUG] How do you like to get rid of terminal corruption?

Quoting Mark Krenz <mark@slugbug.org>:

> Ok, just kidding. I'm curious though, how do you usually like to get
> rid of terminal corruption? Do you just close the terminal or are you
> daring and try to reverse it by cat'ing out /dev/urandom or /dev/sda?
> Sometimes I'll try cat'ing /dev/urandom, but something makes me think
> that its dangerous to do that. Anyone know?

What does cat /dev/urandom acheive? Doesn't that just say spew random
garbage? Is it the homeopathic method? :)


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