How to clear the screen with bash ?
Michael R Cook
mcook@cognex.com
Tue Jun 30 14:51:00 GMT 1998
"$Bill Luebkert" <dbe@wgn.net> writes:
> > 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 <stdio.h>
> int
> main () {
> printf ("\033[2J");
> }
>
> 3) alias cls='cat ~/.cls'
> where .cls contains just these 4 chars with no \n (ESC [ 2 J)
How about:
$ alias cls='cmd /c cls'
M.
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