How do I clear the Gnome terminal history?
When we use clear command or Ctrl+L in terminal, it clears terminal but we can still scroll back to view the last used commands. Is there a way to completely clear the terminal?
escape-characters
What does the ^ character mean in sequences like ^X^I?
I was reading this message from the zsh mailing list about key bindings and I’d like to know which key I need to press:
Hide and unhide cursor with tput
The curs_set routine sets the cursor state to invisible,
normal, or very visible for visibility equal to 0, 1, or 2
respectively. If the terminal supports the visibility re-quested, the previous cursor state is returned; otherwise,
ERR is returned.
How to use less in a script without getting ESC escape characters?
When I use less at the command line the output is like
Escape sequences with “echo -e” in different shells
I just noticed that it seems like the flag -e does not exist for the echo command in my shell on Linux.
Is this just a messed up setting or is it “normal”?
How to prevent random console output from breaking the terminal?
There are many questions on SE that show how to recover from terminal broken by cat /dev/urandom. For those that are unfamiliar with this issue – here what it is about: