From: darren@onlinemagic.com (Darren Evans) Subject: Re: How to clear the screen with bash ? 1 Jul 1998 14:15:37 -0700 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980701091826.00bac760.cygnus.gnu-win32@mailhost.onlinemagic.com> References: <3597E3B7.65F466F7@wgn.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com >> How to clear the screen with bash ? > >Ret one of these: > >1) alias cls='echo -n ^[[2J' # the ^[ is an esc (in vi I use ^V followed by > # ^[ where ^ is holding down the cntrl key) > >2) compile this into clear.exe or cls.exe: > > #include > int > main () { > printf ("\033[2J"); > } > >3) alias cls='cat ~/.cls' > where .cls contains just these 4 chars with no \n (ESC [ 2 J) I compiled clear.exe form utils-linux which works with a terminfo file. ------------------------------------------ Darren Evans 0171 573 5961 Systems Engineer FAX 0171 573 5959 Systems Operation Group Online Magic Ltd - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".