Can't type long commands in debian

[Red Squirrel]

I have a server running Debian but for whatever reason I can't type commands longer then 24 chars. After that it starts to screw up and truncates, instead of going to next line. This seems to be a debian issue as I've seen it before.

Is there a workaround to this or am I pretty much screwed?

 

[Nothinman]

Are you sure it's not working? I've seen bash get confused sometimes but I never looked into why because just wiping the line and typing it again or at worst typing 'reset' first always fixed it.

 

[Red Squirrel]

well the commands may work, but the text gets all obfuscated so I can't even see what I'm typing. I can copy and paste and it will work though.

 

[degibson]

Try ending your longer commands with \
and letting them wrap to the next line

 

[mundhra]

take a look here