On Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 08:47:37PM +0000, Phillip Deackes generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > How do I issue a 'clear' command to the terminal so that when I leave > kdm to shutdown or reboot I have a clean text screen? I need to do this > to clear up some screen corruption which responds to 'clear'. >
Here's a very elegant way that appeared in one of LG issues. Put this in your .bash_profile 'trap /usr/bin/clear EXIT'. Put this in your .bashrc if desired also. trap is a very interesting internal bash command. -- Windows NT: n. 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.