On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 07:37:59AM -0600, wes schreiner wrote: > > # ~/.bash_logout: executed by bash(1) when login shell exits. > # when leaving the console clear the screen to increase privacy > case "`tty`" in > /dev/tty[0-9]) 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^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^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^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^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\ > ^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^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^L^L^L^L > clear > > Those ^L are real control-L's, not shift-6, shift-L. I'd still like to > see a cleaner way to clear the CONSOLE scroll-back. All of the > suggestions so far (clear, reset -Q, ESC[2J ESC[0;0H in /etc/issue) just > clear the immediately visible screen, not the console scroll-back.
how about:
case "$(tty)" in
/dev/tty[0-9])
t=$(v=`tty` ; echo ${v##*ty})
clear
chvt 63; chvt "$t"
;;
*)
;;
esac
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Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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