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Re: How Does One Clear the Terminal Window?

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In article <310120142225402925%star@sky.net>, Davoud <star@sky.net>
wrote:

> Davoud:
> > 
> > > Not just the visible part that "clear" takes care of, but permanently
> > > clear the entire ancient history in the terminal window?
> 
> Siri Cruz:
> > Command-K or the unix command clear.
> 
> As I tried to make obvious, the Unix command "clear" does not do what I
> want. Command-K does it, thank you. But Command-K is not a Unix
> command. Anyone know what the Unix command is?

It may depend upon the shell, but tcsh and bash both seem to have the
'history -c' command, which clears the current history list, i.e., the
one you get when you type 'history', and the commands you get
one-at-a-time when you press up-arrow.

The current history list is written out to a file (e.g., ~/.history)
when you log out and restored when you next log in.

-- 
Jim Gibson

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How Does One Clear the Terminal Window? Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-01-31 20:54 -0500
  Re: How Does One Clear the Terminal Window? Siri Cruz <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2014-01-31 18:20 -0800
    Re: How Does One Clear the Terminal Window? Martin Frost me at invalid stanford daht edu <nospam@stanford.edu.invalid> - 2014-01-31 18:26 -0800
      Re: How Does One Clear the Terminal Window? David Ritz <dritz@mindspring.com> - 2014-01-31 21:40 -0600
        Re: How Does One Clear the Terminal Window? Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-01-31 23:54 -0500
        Re: How Does One Clear the Terminal Window? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-02-01 03:10 -0500
          Re: How Does One Clear the Terminal Window? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-01 15:06 +0000
            Re: How Does One Clear the Terminal Window? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-02-01 10:57 -0500
              Re: How Does One Clear the Terminal Window? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-02-01 11:22 -0500
                Re: How Does One Clear the Terminal Window? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-02-01 11:25 -0500
                Re: How Does One Clear the Terminal Window? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-01 16:47 +0000
              Re: How Does One Clear the Terminal Window? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-01 16:46 +0000
            Re: How Does One Clear the Terminal Window? Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2014-02-01 10:04 -0800
    Re: How Does One Clear the Terminal Window? Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-01-31 22:25 -0500
      Re: How Does One Clear the Terminal Window? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-01-31 22:32 -0500
      Re: How Does One Clear the Terminal Window? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-01 04:55 +0000
      Re: How Does One Clear the Terminal Window? Jim Gibson <jimsgibson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-03 10:31 -0800
  Re: How Does One Clear the Terminal Window? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-02-01 09:18 +0000
    Re: How Does One Clear the Terminal Window? Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2014-02-01 17:55 +0000
      Re: How Does One Clear the Terminal Window? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-02-01 17:59 +0000
        Re: How Does One Clear the Terminal Window? Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2014-02-01 18:48 +0000
          Re: How Does One Clear the Terminal Window? David Ritz <dritz@mindspring.com> - 2014-02-01 13:24 -0600

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