Subject: Re: No 'clear' in cygwin
From: [email-masked] (Weiqi Gao)

21 Jan 1999 10:38:36 -0800
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To: "Michael K. Elwood" <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]

"Michael K. Elwood" wrote:
> 
> Minor gripe of the day:
> 
> Cygwin doesn't include a binary for the 'clear' command. :-(
> 
> Come to think of it, does anybody know what GNU package would contain this
> handy little util?

The GNU readline library has a function called rl-clear_screen() that
would clear the screen.  GNU bash is usually built with the readline
library.  The default key binding for this function is C-l (^L,
control+L).

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Weiqi Gao
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