In my case clear actually deletes all onscreen output. What I want is a way to start off with a clear terminal while still having access to all prior output by scrolling up.
I use Kitty and Fish btw.
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You can use clear -x to preserve the scrollback buffer, or CTRL+L keypress.
You could e.g. alias something like cls to 'clear -x' so you have two commands available, to either clear the buffer or not.
Both these work in Kitty 0.76.1.13, when I use it to SSH into Bash (or Fish 3.0.2) on a Debian remote computer.
Michael Harvey
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In my case
clear -xdoes not delete the scrollback buffer but it does delete the output that is currently on screen, meaning that content is no longer available in the scrollback afterwards. – J-Kappes Mar 20 '24 at 10:05 -
How odd. If I do
clear -xI produce a clear screen, the cursor goes to the top of the terminal, and if I scroll up the first line that comes into view (the last line of the scroll buffer contents) is... theclear -xthat I entered. Thus nothing that was on the screen before is lost. This is the same in bash and fish. Still using kitty. One difference with CTR+L (instead of clear -x) is that an extra blank line appears at the end of the buffer on scrolling up. – Michael Harvey Mar 20 '24 at 12:10
clearpreserve entire scrollback buffer? – Kamil Maciorowski Mar 18 '24 at 18:58