Re: Newbie Alias and Profile questions

[Ken Jackson]

On 02/10/2014 08:15 PM, Mike Rushton wrote:

I am trying to put an alias in a .bashrc

alias clear='printf "\033c"'

Sometimes 'clear' is installed and sometimes it's not, so
I put this line in my ~/.bashrc file on all Linux, BSD and
Cygwin systems:

test -z "$(type -t clear)"  &&  alias clear='echo -n -e "\e[2J\e[H"'

-Ken

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