Bash environment breaks after calling matlab from command line

Question

I have a strange problem: when calling matlab command from the shell , as follows:

matlab -nodesktop -nojvm -nosplash -r "SomeFunction(SomeParameter);quit;"

it works fine, but on exiting matlab breaks down something in bash environment - I can type commands but see no display of what I am typing, but see results of command execution. It seems it is redirected somewhere, but I can't figure out how to get it back and why it was redirected. Hitting return repeats printing of the prompt and I get smth like:

anton@richter:~/data$ anton@richter:~/data$ anton@richter:~/data$ anton@richter:~/data$

Any hint/help on this would be useful.

Details: I am using Ubuntu server. Anton

Douglas Leeder · Answer 1 · 2012-04-24T16:46:16.343

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echo has been turned off.

Doing reset is the quickest solution, as it's probably messed up more than just echo. But to just reset echo, you can do stty echo.

edited Apr 24 '12 at 16:46

answered Apr 24 '12 at 16:24

Douglas Leeder

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Thanks Douglas, that works. How do I turn it back on in the script? just "reset" each time? Seems excessive . – user1354209 Apr 24 '12 at 16:25
typing "stty echo" does the minimal job! thanks for the lead! – user1354209 Apr 24 '12 at 16:40
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Yes, and it's actually the terminal line settings which have been altered here - it has nothing to do with bash. – Chris Stratton Apr 24 '12 at 17:12
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might be good to do stty sane as that will reset a lot of options to predictable state. – frankc Apr 24 '12 at 19:55

Bash environment breaks after calling matlab from command line

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