Mac OS X Lion Terminal Cursor Problem

Question

Before I installed Lion opening a terminal window placed the cursor at the end of the prompt like so:

Wed Aug 31{shirsch4@Susan-Hirschs-iMac}/projects/perl/perl/lib/Utils--><cursor>

Now when I open a terminal window I get the cursor somewhere in the middle of the prompt like so:

Wed Aug 31{shirsch4@Susan-Hirsch<cursor>-iMac}/projects/perl/perl/lib/Utils-->

Anyone have any idea how I can correct this?

try reset ; stty sane ; clear at the command prompt. If that doesn't solve it wait until this gets migrated over to the Apple site, where some OS X gurus should be able to suss out what's wrong, because I can't think of anything that would cause the behavior you describe short of your terminal settings getting b0rked...

myhd · Answer 1 · 2012-09-04 12:47:44Z

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In Terminal > Preferences, change xterm-256color to xterm-color:

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edited Sep 4 '12 at 12:47

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answered Dec 16 '11 at 15:02

janw
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Can you add a little more information? How do you change the color? What commands do you need to run? – daviesgeek Aug 15 '12 at 2:17

migrated from serverfault.com Aug 31 '11 at 21:33