When you SSH into a Unix system, you can dump a lot of text to the screen and invoke the clear command to clear the screen.  Of course, I was surprised when this didn’t work with Cygwin, but I found a solution.

Generally, Cygwin doesn’t want to install many useful things by default.  Sure, some vital things are there, but some things such as clear are not there.  It didn’t take too long to find out how to resolve this problem though.

In short, you need to install ncurses in Uitl to get clear but you can also hit CTRL – L to clear the screen as well in Cygwin without installing anything special.  So, use either approach that you prefer.

Source for my information is at…

http://rubenlaguna.com/wp/2007/09/26/bash-clear-command-not-found/

Anyways, this certainly makes thins easier for me.  🙂