Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 14:48:34 -0400 From: Roman Katsnelson <romank@graphnet.com> To: "q's" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: "clear" curiosity Message-ID: <35DDC102.CE22AD57@graphnet.com>
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Hi, I did 'cat clear' recently, and saw that all it said was exec tput clear I noticed that when I just type that in at the command line, the result is entirely different -- it logs me out, clears the screen and gives a new login prompt. I like this a lot better than the regular "exit" or "Ctrl-D" thing because it clears the screen first. These are my two questions: 1) Why are the results different between the same commands in a shell script and at the command line? and 2) How can I write a shell script that does the same thing? (I tried, but, of course, it did exactly what 'clear' does). Thanks for any ideas, Roman -- Roman Katsnelson Graphnet, Inc. romank@graphnet.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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