Long commands in bash terminal overwrites my prompt, instead of new line

When I'm in Terminal and I type a long command or something, instead of the Terminal continuing the command onto the next line, it starts overwriting my username@host prompt. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Does it happen in all user accounts? You may have altered your bash shell profiles in some way. To check this, run the following commands, and then post the results of each here (the results should open in a TextEdit window):
cat ~/.bash_profile | open -fe
cat ~/.bashrc | open -fe
cat /etc/profile | open -fe

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Delete this file /Users/yourname/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist and see...
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I'm a new member of forum and new user of OS X.
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