Re: Clear screan question
from the secret journal of wes schreiner (wes@infosink.com):
> See that "SHIFT-PgUp"? We have always been talking about clearing the
> console scroll-back buffer. Just clearing the screen is easy, that's
> why this thread has shown several ways to do that. Clearing the
> scroll-back buffer is trickier. Either one uses a logout script to fill
> it with blank space (my suggestion) or the script switches to an unused
> vt and back (Ethan's suggestion). Got an ANSI code to do that?
>
wes, thanks for the sanity. have you tried anything with /dev/vcs*?
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