There's no command, but "ctrl-l" (ctrl-ell) clears the screen. Cheers, Kevin
On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Nafiul Islam <gamesbrain...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi (again)! > > Hopefully a (slightly) more intelligent question this time. I've been > successfully able to run shell commands from Julia through Base.run, and > the first thing I did was clear the screen: > > julia> Base.run(`clear`) > > However, I wanted to ask, if there was an inbuilt function that does this. > Making one yourself is trivial of course: > > julia> f() = Base.run(`clear`) > f (generic function with 1 method) > > But creating one for each session is rather annoying. > > Second question is that I'm looking for something like Python's dirfunction: > > In [3]: import os > > In [4]: dir(os) > Out[4]: > ['EX_CANTCREAT', > 'EX_CONFIG', > 'EX_DATAERR', > 'EX_IOERR', > .... > .... > .... > 'wait', > 'wait3', > 'wait4', > 'waitpid', > 'walk', > 'write'] > > In essence, it gives you a list of all the objects/functions that are > available to that package. Now, I've taken a look at the help function in > Julia, and its helpful on a function, it can give you information about a > function that you know exist: > > julia> help(run) > Base.run(command) > > Run a command object, constructed with backticks. Throws an error > if anything goes wrong, including the process exiting with a non- > zero status. > > However, it is Base that has this function. Is there a tool like dir that > I can leverage to explore Julia? >
