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Ok so you installed Cygwin and try out your first commands.... u cluttered ur screen and its time for doing a "clear".
Ooops... its giving you a "bash: clear: command not found". You just can't clear the dumb screen. I know thats frustrating....
So which dumb package did you miss when installing cygwin --- its the ncurses package. Open cygwin setup again and choose ncurses library from the "Lib" package. Once you've installed that, clear will start working.
If you are lazy enough and don't want to download stuff, just use "Ctrl+L" to clear your screen.
Keep clearing...
Thursday, June 26, 2008
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It's been moved to the Utils package now.
Installed and uninstalled then reinstalled still doesnt work. not even "Ctrl+L" on the reinstall i installed the whole thing.
Its been some time now that I've used cygwin. By the somebody anonymous commented its been moved to the Utils package now (thx for the info). Have you tried that ?
I have installed all of the options of cygwin including the whole Utils package. it could just be my install. i installed it on another computer and the clear command works fine.
anonymous 12:26
If you have set bash to use 'vi' mode for editing the command line, using "set -o vi" in your .bash_profile, then Ctrl-L will stop working.
The solution is to create an .inputrc file in your home directory; here is an example:
$ cat .inputrc
set editing-mode vi
"\C-l": clear-screen
--
Dave
thanks for pointing that out dave. In fact I just wrote an entry about .inputrc yesterday -- http://abhisanoujam.blogspot.com/2009/06/bash-command-line-editing-custom.html . You can have even better mappings for moving your cursor backwards word by word etc, check out the post. You should be able to use that regardless of being in 'vi' mode or default emacs mode, just have the following in your inputrc file (just a sample for clear screen shortcut):
$ cat ~/.inputrc
"\C-l": clear-screen
thanks very much. It works for me
I did the NCURSES but even before then, the copy and paste did not work. Any ideas what I should look for? I can make this work from where I work, so there is something wrong with my configuration, but I do not know what it is.
thanks for the helpful post.
nice thanq u for giving nice answer
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Thank you for the post, exactly what I needed!
Thank you.. it was handy to learn this and the shortcut Ctrl +L too..
ctrl+L. That's the tip of the month for me. I've had this issue for like years. And too lazy to even google it...and now I'm too lazy to download anything. So ctrl L will be my best friend.
This was an awesome tutorial...just what i was lookin for ..thanx
Thanks Ctrl+L works
This did help me. Thank you from Brazil.
Did not know about CTRL-L. Thanks!
-bash vi: command not found but i see vi folder created inside usr/share/locale any idea why vi is not working ? kindle help me !thank u :)
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