Clearing the COMPLETE screen.

Fri Feb 24 15:34:00 GMT 2006

On 24 February 2006 15:05, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote:
> Dave Korn wrote:
>> I generally use a line like this:
>> alias cls='cmd -c cls'
>> For me, that has to read 'cmd /c cls' or it doesn't work. :-P

 Heh, for me too.
> 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"'

 For me, that has to read 'echo -e "033円c"' or it doesn't work. :-P~~~
> YMMV, of course.

 It certainly does: the ESC-c sequence doesn't reset the scrollback buffer
position for me.
 Of course, I'm using a DOS prompt and CYGWIN=notty. YMMV!
 cheers,
 DaveK
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