Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 18:00:02 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> To: Alex Dyas <adyas@twowaytv.co.uk> Cc: FBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: clear screen command? Message-ID: <20011217180002.K389@roman.mobil.cz> In-Reply-To: <20011217162548.R223-100000@r2d2.twowaytv.co.uk> References: <20011214211545.R27919@roman.mobil.cz> <20011217162548.R223-100000@r2d2.twowaytv.co.uk>
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> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 16:27:02 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Alex Dyas <adyas@twowaytv.co.uk>
> To: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz>
> cc: FBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Subject: Re: clear screen command?
>
> On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
>
> > > From: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com>
> > > To: "FBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> > > Subject: clear screen command?
> > > Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 15:04:25 -0500
> > >
> > > When the screen gets full of messages and starts rolling off,
> > > I would sometimes like to clear the screen IE: blank it out,
> > > so only the command line remains.
> > > Does FBSD have a command to do this?
> >
> > press ctrl+l (that's ell)
>
> doing this in ksh does not work. maybe bash specific?
I don't use bash at all.
roman@roman ~ > echo $shell
/bin/tcsh
roman@roman ~ > bindkey |grep clear
"^L" -> clear-screen
"^L" -> clear-screen
roman@roman ~ > grep clear .tcshrc
roman@roman ~ >
So in tcsh it's default. BTW this "shortcut" is so common it's a
defacto standard. I think that reading man ksh will reveal how to
set it.
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