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Re: clear screen?
- To: john dot cooper at digitivity dot com
- Subject: Re: clear screen?
- From: Ed Huott <huotte at rpi dot edu>
- Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 22:13:32 -0400
- CC: GNU-Win32 at cygnus dot com
john.cooper@digitivity.com writes:
>
> Is there a command to clear the screen when using bash?
>
> `type clear' and `type cls' reveal nothing.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --- John
>
Try adding the following function definition to your .profile (which
gets processed when bash is started with the `-login' switch):
clear () { command.COM /c cls ; }
export -f clear
It's crude (and slow), but it does work.
<ED>
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