Igor Peshansky wrote: > Yes, but "printf '\ec'" works ju-ust fine in bash... :-) Even better. That works unchanged in both bash and zsh. > Do you set your TERM to "rxvt" or "xterm"? The control sequence in > the terminfo database may be wrong if you don't use the native "rxvt" > terminal setting. I've tried both "rxvt" and "xterm". Either way, it doesn't clear the contents of the scrollback buffer. Looking a bit deeper, the terminfo and termcap clear/cl entries for both term types are "\E[H\E[2J", so it's doing the same thing, I think. gsw -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/