I have just installed CygWin for the first time on my old Windwoes box and that didn't have clear either, so I quickly hacked this simple shell script and saved it in /usr/bin as clear...
Hopefully it will work for you with your version of shell. If not just experiment...
Don't forget to set the permissions as 755 or something similar and just launch it as the clear command...
I'm training a newbie on unix. He's in another site and I can't share my unix books with him - is there any documentation on basic unix commands he can download? (1 Reply)
I'm trying to make use of some common generic functions already present in the scripts loaded in the environment.
A variable VAR1 is declared and used in the generic functions.
Its value is also set in the generic function.
Now I need to use that generic function for PURGING of some old files... (2 Replies)
Hi.
I'm New user for this Forum.Presently i'm working with Cygwin
I want to know the basic commands that will be used for Cygwin.
Can anyone guide me on this regards
Thanks & Regards
Sanjay (0 Replies)
I would be thankful if anyone could show me commands to do the following tasks in vi:1) How can I undo or redo my last action in vi editor.
2) How can I copy only a word or a portion of line (not the whole line) in vi, like
we can select text and press ctrl+c in notepad to copy any text.
3)... (4 Replies)
Hello out there!!!
I have a Red Hat Entreprise Linux 4 server and I am encountering this error
# grep
Segmentation Fault
I know it is not the right use of grep command, but I did that just for testing purpose,then I did
# which grep
/bin/grep
# ls -l /bin/grep
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root... (4 Replies)
In case you are interested, here is a partial list of linux-like commands on Android OS:
/sbin
adbd
devmgr
recovery
dfta
init
dfta.sh
fat.format
redbend_ua
/system/bin (partial list)
sh
date
netstat
mount
umount (0 Replies)
Hi I'm pretty new to scripting and I've been googling around looking for an answer but have yet to come up with a proper solution. I work with multiple android devices at a time and I'm looking to simplify my life with a script. Basically I'm looking for a script that takes the device ID's and then... (2 Replies)
I am thinking of developing an app' for Android mobile devices...
Two questions here:-
1) Does anyone _develop_ for the Android _mobile_ platform?
If so do you use OSX 10.7.5 or greater as your _development_platform_?
2) I know ********* is gonna say that the Android terminal/shell is... (13 Replies)
Discussion started by: wisecracker
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LEARN ABOUT V7
clear
clear(1) General Commands Manual clear(1)NAME
clear - clear the terminal screen
SYNOPSIS
clear [-Ttype] [-V] [-x]
DESCRIPTION
clear clears your screen if this is possible, including its scrollback buffer (if the extended "E3" capability is defined). clear looks in
the environment for the terminal type given by the environment variable TERM, and then in the terminfo database to determine how to clear
the screen.
clear writes to the standard output. You can redirect the standard output to a file (which prevents clear from actually clearing the
screen), and later cat the file to the screen, clearing it at that point.
OPTIONS -T type
indicates the type of terminal. Normally this option is unnecessary, because the default is taken from the environment variable TERM.
If -T is specified, then the shell variables LINES and COLUMNS will also be ignored.
-V reports the version of ncurses which was used in this program, and exits. The options are as follows:
-x do not attempt to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer using the extended "E3" capability.
HISTORY
A clear command appeared in 2.79BSD dated February 24, 1979. Later that was provided in Unix 8th edition (1985).
AT&T adapted a different BSD program (tset) to make a new command (tput), and used this to replace the clear command with a shell script
which calls tput clear, e.g.,
/usr/bin/tput ${1:+-T$1} clear 2> /dev/null
exit
In 1989, when Keith Bostic revised the BSD tput command to make it similar to the AT&T tput, he added a shell script for the clear command:
exec tput clear
The remainder of the script in each case is a copyright notice.
The ncurses clear command began in 1995 by adapting the original BSD clear command (with terminfo, of course).
The E3 extension came later:
o In June 1999, xterm provided an extension to the standard control sequence for clearing the screen. Rather than clearing just the vis-
ible part of the screen using
printf '