Re: Clear screan question

[wes schreiner <wes@infosink.com>]

Tom Breza wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I just use fetch and I been editing filie fetchmail, after I finish
> editing file I log off from by presing CTRL-D but above log prompt I can
> read what was been done before, is any chance to clear screan complitly
> when I log off? That when I press SHIFT-PgUp nobody can see anything?


Most shells have a file they will run at logout.  For bash this is
~/.bash_logout.  In my ~/.bash_logout I have:

echo ^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L
echo ^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L
echo ^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L
echo ^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L
echo ^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L
echo ^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L
echo ^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L^L
clear


The idea is to have enough Control-L's to clear out the scroll-back
buffer and the clear is there so that the next login happens at the top
of the screen.  Works like a charm.

wes schreiner