Clearing Console in Cygwin
Just a short one but hopefully helpful!
I’m working a lot on Windows at the moment but I have Cygwin installed as Unix environment, e.g., for working with git scm.
One thing I thing I was missing is that I could not clear the console with “cls” which was pretty annoying.
After doing a little research I figured out how to fix that.
1. using CTRL – L
2. defining an alias like
alias clear='cmd /c cls'
If you just type it in a cygwin shell it will only be available for the current session.
If you want to make this alias persistent you need to edit ~/.bashrc with your favourite editor and add it.
You will also find many other predefined aliases there which are commented out.
Meine letzten cygwin Experimente sind schon länger her aber nach einer kurzen Suche sollte mit dem package ncurses das clear commano mitkommen.