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Re: Clearing the COMPLETE screen.


With that alias, I get ...

RichardQ@richardquadling ~
$ alias cs='echo -n "\ec"'

RichardQ@richardquadling ~
$ cs
\ec
RichardQ@richardquadling ~
$

I'm using the standard bash shell. The shortcut icon is the Cygwin logo.


On 24/02/06, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) <gsw@lovespam.com> wrote:
> For me, that has to read  'cmd /c cls' or it doesn't work. :-P
>
> This was mildly annoying me for a while as well. I finally
> broke down and took a look into it. It looks like the ESC c
> (reset terminal) control works under both RXVT and standard
> "Command" windows. It resets the scrollbar in addition to
> clearing the screen.
>
> So I just changed my "clear screen" alias to:
>
>   alias cs='echo -n "\ec"'
>
> YMMV, of course.
>
> gsw
>
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