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. -- 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
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