Comments on: Clearing the Terminal Screen in Cygwin

By: Mungo

Mungo — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:56:47 +0000

If you right click on the terminal one of the menu options is reset…the keyboard shortcut is Alt+F8.

Dave D — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 19:02:13 +0000

Albert: The alias works wonderfully well, though I had to substitute double quotes for the single quotes.

Jimmy C — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 03:11:55 +0000

@ITWARZ : You rock. You are amazing. All praise to you!

somguyinbaltimore — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 03:39:20 +0000

Sandy, Ctrl+L worked for me.

Grant — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:43:21 +0000

Chris:

Thanks.

Chris — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 03:58:32 +0000

Install ncurses… It includes the clear command

Gene — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:01:33 +0000

Following ITWARZ post,

if you don’t want to open notepad..

cd /bin
touch clear.exe
echo cmd /c cls > clear.exe
chmod 777 clear.exe

cheers~

Will Grasmick — Mon, 23 May 2011 18:07:40 +0000

oops – The “easy” part got mixed up, correction:

echo “alias clear=’/cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/cmd.exe /c cls’” >> ~/.bashrc

Will Grasmick — Mon, 23 May 2011 18:06:23 +0000

All it takes is adding this to the end of .bashrc:

alias clear=’/cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/cmd.exe /c cls’

Even easier, do it from Cygwin Bash:
alias echo “clear=’/cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/cmd.exe /c cls’” >> ~/.bashrc

JP — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 20:06:31 +0000

Thanx a lot ITWARZ, with clear.exe notepad installed, Clear command works…THANX again