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Re: unable to type command into Cygwin after running 'tail'
- From: David Rothenberger <daveroth at acm dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:53:05 -0800
- Subject: Re: unable to type command into Cygwin after running 'tail'
- References: <30355317.post@talk.nabble.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
orbita wrote:
>
> hi,
> I've been experiencing this problem for quite some time. Whenever I do a
> tail (eg. "tail -f abc.txt | grep abc"), and then Ctrl-C to exit the tail, I
> can't type in new commands to the command prompt anymore.
>
> All I could do is close that window and open another cygwin session.
>
> Can anybody help?
Try typing "reset" or "stty sane" (without the quotes) and pressing
Enter. You won't see what you're typing, but after the shell should work
again.
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