Re: Clear Screen

[Andy Koppe <andy dot koppe at gmail dot com>]

On 1 December 2010 11:34, Ajay Jain wrote:
> I use bash on Xterm.
> While working you press Ctrl-L, so that the screen gets cleared and
> you see the currently line only. But you may want to see the last
> outputs/prints. However, if you do a Ctrl-L/clear command, these
> prints go away. In that case, what can you use so that you clear the
> screen of the prints/outputs from last command. But in case you want
> to see the last output, you can just go scroll up/pageup.
>
> I looked at the bash & Xterm manpage but this info is not available.

Yep, looks like xterm doesn't push the screen content into the
scrollback when clearing the screen, and I can't see an option for it
either. You may want to try mintty, which does do what you expect (and
which doesn't require X).

Andy

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