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How to clear the scrollback buffer in Bash?
With Bash Ctrl L will clear the screen but not scrollback buffer. In the past I have worked around this by using: However I have noticed that this command will not clear the scrollback buffer with Zsh.
What should the first line of a zsh completion file look like?
The first line of a completion function file can look something like this: This tells zsh that the file contains code for completing the foobar command. This is the format that you will use most often for the first line, but you can also use the same file for completing several different functions if you want.
How to make custom zsh completions in Ubuntu?
.zcompdump is a cache file used by compinit. ~/.zcompdump is the default location; you can choose a different location when running compinit. Oh-my-zsh calls compinit with the -d option to use a different cache file name given by the variable ZSH_COMPDUMP, which defaults to
How to tell zsh which function to use for completing a command?
You can also use the compdef command directly (e.g. in your ~/.zshrc file) to tell zsh which function to use for completing a command like this: or to use the same completions for several commands: or if you want to supply arguments:
Is there a way to clear the whole screen in Linux?
You won’t see this in Xterm, or in Unicode RXVT, or in the terminal emulator built into the Linux kernel, or on the FreeBSD console. What happens in general is this.
How to change the DIV command in Bash?
In bash, enter: This makes it so that when you do the div command, it enters two dividers with 10 new lines between them, followed by a clean command. This will make so that when you are scrolling back, you’ll know exactly where you used div. You can change the sudo bash behavior by doing sudo su before the procedure I listed.
How to avoid clear Commans being cleared by-X?
Short Answer: If you have relatively newer version of clear, you can avoid the scrollbuffer’s being cleared by -x option. clear commans is a part of ncurses. Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790). I didn’t see this issue with earlier to 14.04 (guessing).