When this happens, I feel like this

reset is your friend. Less so these days with GUIs where it’s often quicker to close the window and open a new terminal emulator, but still good to know about in a pinch. That rare occasion where you’re actually on a console and Ctrl-Alt-F# isn’t available, or attached to a remote session where disconnection might mean you can’t get back on, etc.

The man page suggests Control-JresetControl-J as the correct sequence to run it, because the Enter key might have had its behaviour altered. And if things are still slightly weird after the reset, run its parent tset.

What a nice folder of mostly text files, would be a shame if someone did a cat * without checking to make sure it doesn’t have a 2GB encrypted game asset archive in it.

Try head, tail, or pipe to less.