On 2017-10-24 at 08:15, Greg Wooledge wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 07:31:32AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
>
>>> clear_console clears your console if this is possible.  It looks in the
> 
>> That program is shipped as part of bash, so it looks as if this might
>> actually be considered a bash bug. I'd see about reporting it there, yes
>> - either in Debian or upstream.
> 
> Definitely not upstream.
> 
> wooledg:/usr/src/bash$ tar xzf bash-4.3.30.tar.gz 
> wooledg:/usr/src/bash$ cd bash-4.3.30
> wooledg:/usr/src/bash/bash-4.3.30$ grep -ri clear_console .
> wooledg:/usr/src/bash/bash-4.3.30$ 
> 
> I'd never even heard of it until now.  It's definitely a Debian add-on.

Thanks. I hadn't considered checking that way, but it's good to have
this confirmed.

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

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