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Re: clear screen?
- To: john dot cooper at digitivity dot com
- Subject: Re: clear screen?
- From: "$Bill Luebkert" <dbe at wgn dot net>
- Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1997 08:29:38 -0700
- CC: GNU-Win32 at cygnus dot com
- Organization: DBE Collectibles
- References: <19970701094858562.AAA316@TENDLE>
- Reply-To: dbe at wgn dot net
John Cooper wrote:
>
> Is there a command to clear the screen when using bash?
>
> `type clear' and `type cls' reveal nothing.
Here's three things you can try:
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 <stdio.h>
int main () { printf("033[2J"); }
3) alias cls='cat ~/.cls'
where .cls contains just these 4 chars with no \n or spaces (ESC [ 2 J)
HTH,
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