Clear screen from bash

Source: cygwin clearscreen from bash

I want to clearscreen from bash in a cygwin terminal. I have tried

cmd /c cls
echo -e "^V^L"
echo -e "\014"

None of these work – they all give a “linefeed”. Pressing CTRL+L does work – but I want to call it from a Bash script.

Any ideas?

Answer:

There is two ways:

Using shortcuts

Alt+F8 to clear screen and Ctrl-L to skip page

Using Clear alias

1. Go to: cygwin\home\USER\.bashrc
2. Open .bashrc file and put this alias alias clear='printf "\033c"'.
3. restart your cygwin terminal.
4. to clear your screen use clear command.