How to clear the scrollback in the screen command?

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Liu Chang picture Liu Chang · Sep 22, 2008 · Viewed 28.4k times · Source

I use the screen command for command-line multitasking in Linux and I set my scrollback buffer length to a very large value. Is there a key combination to clear the buffer for a certain tab when I don't want it sitting there anymore?

Answer

Zsolt Botykai picture Zsolt Botykai · Sep 22, 2008

This thread has the following suggestion:

In the window whose scrollback you want to delete, set the scrollback to zero, then return it to its normal value (in your case, 15000).

If you want, you can bind this to a key:

bind / eval "scrollback 0" "scrollback 15000"

You can issue the scrollback 0 command from the session as well, after typing C-a :. HTH.

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