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Re: Clearing the Cygwin console
- From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten at thorstenkampe dot de>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:38:49 +0100
- Subject: Re: Clearing the Cygwin console
- References: <gpft5l$8b7$1@ger.gmane.org>
* Thomas Wiedmann (Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:25:21 +0100)
> on Linux/UNIX systems with the command 'clear' the console content
> usually can be "flushed", on Windows with 'cls'. None of these
> commands worked with Cygwin. If I enter 'clear', the message
> bash: clear: command not found
> is returned.
>
> How can a console used with Cygwin be cleared?
With the "clear" command. clear is part of ncurses and you have to
install it if it is not yet installed.
Thorsten
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