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Marcus
Marcus

Reputation: 1715

How to reset terminal without losing the current command?

I'm trying to create a keyboard shortcut to reset the current terminal. I'm using a .inputrc entry like this:

"\C-K": 'echo -en "\\033c"\n'

It works, however, I can't do that while typing a command.

For instance, if I'm typing a command like this (with the cursor at the end):

$ foobar

and press CTRL+K, it will become

$ foobarecho -en "\033c""

and, of course, it is not going to work. It is possible to do it?

I suppose it is possible, since that's what CTRL+L does. The only problem with CTRL+L is that it won't clear the entire terminal, including history, just what's on screen.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1922

Answers (2)

damienfrancois
damienfrancois

Reputation: 59080

I am not sure how to do that in inputrc, but you can do it with the bind command and its -x option.

bind -x '"\C-K": "echo -en \\033c"'

You can put the above line in your .bashrc and it will offer the same behaviour as the one you describe with CTRL+L.

Upvotes: 1

Ilja
Ilja

Reputation: 142

do not understand "reset the current terminal". Clean your terminal? If so you can use command clear

Upvotes: 0

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