How do I get the 'clear' command in Cygwin?

cygwin ncurses
MarnixKlooster ReinstateMonica picture MarnixKlooster ReinstateMonica · Jun 28, 2012 · Viewed 99k times · Source

I installed Cygwin, choosing a fairly minimal set of packages.

In a terminal, I tried to do 'clear' to clear the terminal, but I get

bash: clear: command not found

How do I get this to work?

Answer

MarnixKlooster ReinstateMonica picture MarnixKlooster ReinstateMonica · Jun 28, 2012

Install the Cygwin package ncurses; it is in the Utils category.

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