Am 2017-06-21 10:06, schrieb Christian Seiler:
'clear' and 'tput clear' are identical in Stretch, both are from ncurses-bin. This was not true in Jessie though, ncurses did change behavior between Jessie and Stretch.
By the way. in case anyone was wondering: Upstream changelog about how clear and tput clear are now identical: http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/NEWS.html#t20161022 Clearing the scrollback buffer is actually desired behavior, see also: http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/NEWS.html#t20130622 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=815790 https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/87469/clearing-the-old-scrollback-buffer And this is apparently documented now: http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/NEWS.html#t20161119 https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/ncurses-bin/clear.1.en.html Regards, Christian