I'd like to clear the scrollback buffer on Linux console VTs programmatically. i.e. not just clear the current visible screen, but the entire scrollback buffer, too. I.e. everything that after a clear screen would still be visible with Alt-PgUp should be gone too. Anybody got an idea how to achieve that in nice code?

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解决方案

I don't think this is in mainline yet, but linux-next has a patch to support a new console escape sequence that clears the screen and the scrollback buffer: CSI 3 J

For something that works without having to upgrade your kernel, you can use:

chvt 42; chvt <current tty no>; echo -en "\e[1;1H\e[2J"

Alternatively:

echo -e "\e[12;42]"; sleep .01; echo -en "\e[12;<current tty no>]\e[1;1H\e[2J"

You can get the current tty number with:

$( ls -l /proc/self/fd | sed -ne 's/.*tty//p' )

其他提示

Keep in mind that other tools (over ssh for example) will have differing implementations of the "scrollback buffer". I highly doubt that you can clean the putty buffer by code in your machine. Also see https://superuser.com/questions/122911/bash-reset-and-clear-commands

This clears the screen, but not the scrollback.

echo -e '\0033\0143' #depends on the terminal emulator you are using, tested on gnome terminal

from https://superuser.com/questions/122911/bash-reset-and-clear-commands

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