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I'm a heavy bash user and konsole is my preferred environment. I know I can use the keyboard command ctrl+shift+x to clear the scrollback buffer, but there's certain points in my scripts where I would like that to occur. How can I clear konsole's scrollback buffer using the command line, bash, or any other shell?
Joshua K
Posted 2009-10-23T22:12:04.433
Reputation: 771
Doesn't work on Kubuntu 14.04.02 – Autodidact – 2015-04-10T09:04:30.237
1@SandeepDatta: It works with konsole 4.14.3 on Fedora 20; it doesn't clear the screen--it clears the scrollback buffer. – retracile – 2015-04-10T18:36:28.390
As an extension to this answer, I aliased this to the clear command (
alias clear="clear && echo -e '\e[3J' && clear") so my screen actually clears now. – Leo C Han – 2015-09-25T15:21:44.260didn't work for me on SUSE in a xterm with bash shell. – djangofan – 2011-03-19T20:00:07.103
3I liked echo -ne "\e[3J" better as it avoids printed line-break. – Patrick B. – 2012-03-22T12:01:25.130
@PatricB.: true, though in this context, I'm expecting him to incorporate it into a script – retracile – 2012-03-22T16:26:27.723
nice! good find and works perfectly! – Joshua K – 2009-10-24T04:32:37.080
@PatrickB. Thanks for the reminder on the -n. :) – Joshua K – 2013-01-21T20:53:00.830