Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bywater!scifi!njs
From: njs@scifi.UUCP (Nicholas J. Simicich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Simple clear command [Was: BSD Unix on 6150-135?]
Summary: Simple clear command...
Message-ID: <548@scifi.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 89 15:39:32 GMT
References: <1966@nmtsun.nmt.edu> <28304@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <496@Portia.Stanford.EDU> <2852@stpstn.UUCP> <559@Portia.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: njs@scifi.UUCP (Nicholas J. Simicich)
Organization: Nick Simicich, Peekskill, NY
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In article <559@Portia.Stanford.EDU> karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish) writes:
>In article <2852@stpstn.UUCP> aad@stepstone.com wrote:
 (.....)
>>I go insane because of the things that aren't there, like more, head, tail,
>>whoami, clear, strings.
 (.....)
>'clear' should be easy to do with curses.  'more' and 'strings' are
>available as PD clones.  If it's really driving you nuts, spend an
>hour or two and fix it.
 (.....)
For a clear command, try:

#!/bin/sh
tput clear

From the tput man page:

PURPOSE
 
     Queries the terminfo file.
 
SYNOPSIS
     tput [ -Ttype ] capname

 

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