Subject: Re: clear screen?
From: [email-masked] (Ed Huott)

1 Jul 1997 20:54:58 -0700
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[email-masked] 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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