Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 07:37:59AM -0600, wes schreiner wrote:
> > I'd still like to > > see a cleaner way to clear the CONSOLE scroll-back. All of the > > suggestions so far (clear, reset -Q, ESC[2J ESC[0;0H in /etc/issue) just > > clear the immediately visible screen, not the console scroll-back. > > how about: > > case "$(tty)" in > /dev/tty[0-9]) > t=$(v=`tty` ; echo ${v##*ty}) > clear > chvt 63; chvt "$t" > ;; > *) > ;; > esac A winner! OK, it flashes if vt 63 is in use, but otherwise it's great. wes