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JimGwynn

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Clear screen from bash
« on: October 04, 2019, 07:37:44 PM »
Is there way to issue a clear screen command within the .bash_profile that will clear the windx screen and return to the upper left?

keith.mcbride

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Re: Clear screen from bash
« Reply #1 on: October 07, 2019, 09:23:15 AM »
In a terminal window, the command "clear" will clears the screen. You can see if it will do the same in Windx

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Re: Clear screen from bash
« Reply #2 on: October 07, 2019, 10:09:42 AM »
If the 'clear' command doesn't work for you, WindX will accept most ANSI terminal escape sequences thus you should be able to issue at the Linux command line:

 printf "\033[H\033[J"

When \033 is the octal representation of the ESC character.
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