Re: No 'clear' in cygwin

Re: No 'clear' in cygwin

[Christopher G. Faylor]

In article <1.5.4.16.19990122052900.132f8afc.cygnus.gnu-win32@fox.nstn.ca>,
Tony Pires <t_pires@fox.nstn.ca> wrote:
>The following works for me under Win95:
>
>alias clear='/C/COMMAND.COM /c cls'
>
>This works even under Rxvt. Should be a simple matter to replace COMMAND
>with CMD under NT?

If the alias above is a bash alias, then all you need to do for bash
is type CTRL-L to clear the screen.
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Re: No 'clear' in cygwin

[Leif Jackson]

Clear is part of the ncurses package :)

-Leif

On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Michael K. Elwood wrote:

>Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 16:53:33 -0700
>From: Michael K. Elwood <mkelwood@qsicorp.com>
>To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com
>Subject: No 'clear' in cygwin
>
>Minor gripe of the day:
>
>Cygwin doesn't include a binary for the 'clear' command. :-(
>
>Come to think of it, does anybody know what GNU package would contain this
>handy little util?
>
>Thanks.
>
>MKE
>
>
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Re: No 'clear' in cygwin

[Weiqi Gao]

"Michael K. Elwood" wrote:
> 
> Minor gripe of the day:
> 
> Cygwin doesn't include a binary for the 'clear' command. :-(
> 
> Come to think of it, does anybody know what GNU package would contain this
> handy little util?

The GNU readline library has a function called rl-clear_screen() that
would clear the screen.  GNU bash is usually built with the readline
library.  The default key binding for this function is C-l (^L,
control+L).

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No 'clear' in cygwin

[Michael K. Elwood]

Minor gripe of the day:

Cygwin doesn't include a binary for the 'clear' command. :-(

Come to think of it, does anybody know what GNU package would contain this
handy little util?

Thanks.

MKE


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Re: No 'clear' in cygwin

[Tony Pires]

The following works for me under Win95:

alias clear='/C/COMMAND.COM /c cls'

This works even under Rxvt. Should be a simple matter to replace COMMAND
with CMD under NT?

At 04:53 PM 1/20/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Minor gripe of the day:
>
>Cygwin doesn't include a binary for the 'clear' command. :-(
>
>Come to think of it, does anybody know what GNU package would contain this
>handy little util?
>
>Thanks.
>
>MKE
>
>
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