From: Ken Jackson <cygwin@jackson.io>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Newbie Alias and Profile questions
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 05:22:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <534B7077.3030503@jackson.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52F979B0.2080604@ptd.net>
On 02/10/2014 08:15 PM, Mike Rushton wrote:
> I am trying to put an alias in a .bashrc
>
> alias clear='printf "\033c"'
Sometimes 'clear' is installed and sometimes it's not, so
I put this line in my ~/.bashrc file on all Linux, BSD and
Cygwin systems:
test -z "$(type -t clear)" && alias clear='echo -n -e "\e[2J\e[H"'
-Ken
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-14 5:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-11 1:26 Mike Rushton
2014-02-11 1:38 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2014-02-11 2:35 ` Mike Rushton
2014-02-12 9:08 ` Mike Rushton
2014-02-12 12:47 ` Andrey Repin
2014-02-11 2:14 ` Christopher Faylor
2014-02-16 10:09 ` Thorsten Kampe
2014-04-14 5:22 ` Ken Jackson [this message]
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