From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 17 8:52:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mobil.cz (diana.mobil.cz [195.39.16.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C37F037B417 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 08:52:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from ester.mobil.cz (ester.mobil.cz [194.213.62.23]) by mobil.cz (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id fBHGq1u07218; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 17:52:01 +0100 Received: from roman.mobil.cz ([10.2.0.89]) by ester.mobil.cz (Lotus Domino Release 5.0.7) with ESMTP id 2001121717505666:811 ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 17:50:56 +0100 Received: (from roman@localhost) by roman.mobil.cz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBHH02b03861; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 18:00:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from neuhauser@mobil.cz) X-Authentication-Warning: roman.mobil.cz: roman set sender to neuhauser@mobil.cz using -f Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 18:00:02 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: Alex Dyas Cc: FBSD Questions Subject: Re: clear screen command? Message-ID: <20011217180002.K389@roman.mobil.cz> Mail-Followup-To: Alex Dyas , FBSD Questions References: <20011214211545.R27919@roman.mobil.cz> <20011217162548.R223-100000@r2d2.twowaytv.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20011217162548.R223-100000@r2d2.twowaytv.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on ester/Mobil(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 12/17/2001 05:50:56 PM, Serialize by Router on ester/Mobil(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 12/17/2001 05:51:02 PM, Serialize complete at 12/17/2001 05:51:02 PM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 16:27:02 +0000 (GMT) > From: Alex Dyas > To: Roman Neuhauser > cc: FBSD Questions > Subject: Re: clear screen command? > > On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > > > From: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" > > > To: "FBSD Questions" > > > 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. -- FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE 5:57PM up 4:52, 8 users, load averages: 0.34, 0.25, 0.13 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message