After having played with curl, a binary file has been dumped inside my terminal. For example, the horizontal lines:  I use to format my prompt are replaced by 'q', and it can be much worse. Why does this happen, and how can you fix it without having to close the terminal?
How to fix a terminal after a binary file has been dumped inside it?
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I think reset would definitely fix it.Consider looking into man page.Example:[m0nhawk@terra:~]> cat /dev/urandomI;)MWdO&![@err:]> c /de/rdoAnd resetfixes this.