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Commands using clear

Terminal - Commands using clear - 7 results

#!/bin/bash cd /usr/share/consolefonts/; for i in * ; do setfont; echo "testing >> $i << font" ; setfont $i ; showconsolefont ; sleep 5 ; clear ; done

2011-10-25 01:14:48

User: ambagasdowa

Functions: cd clear echo sleep

Tags: conlsolefonts

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view all console fonts

Testing in a TTY terminal , not emulator .

while true ; do sleep 1 ; clear ; (netstat -tn | grep -P ':36089\s+\d') ; done

2011-09-28 11:39:43

User: hute37

Functions: clear grep netstat sleep true

-3

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Monitoring a port connections

shell loop to scan netstat output avoiding loolback aliases (local/remote swap for local connections)

clear

2011-09-28 04:02:07

User: nulluser

Functions: clear

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Clear the terminal screen

works in /bin/bash

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mpc clear && mpc add http://twit.am:80/listen && mpc play

2010-05-26 17:01:59

User: asolkar

Functions: clear

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Listen to TWiT with mpd/mpc

This will clear the current playlist.

Almost exactly same command can be used with xmms2:

xmms2 clear && xmms2 add http://twit.am:80/listen && xmms2 play

wget http://checkip.dyndns.org && clear && echo && echo My IP && egrep -o '([[:digit:]]{1,3}\.){3}[[:digit:]]{1,3}' index.html && echo && rm index.html

2009-08-07 21:21:59

User: onkelchentobi

Functions: clear echo egrep rm wget

-1

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Get your external IP address

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while (( $i != 0 )) { smbstatus; sleep 5; clear }

2009-06-03 13:26:30

User: unixmonkey4084

Functions: clear sleep

Tags: unix samba zsh

-4

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See smbstatus all the time

See smbstatus Output within a 5 second interval (for monitoring smb access)

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clear; for i in `cat thehosts` ; do ssh $i "cat uname -a ; /etc/redhat-release; cat /proc/cpuinfo | tail -n 25 | egrep '^processor|^model name' "; free ; df -h ;done

2009-05-21 16:44:23

User: dapf73

Functions: clear df free ssh

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Do a quick check on the harware specifications on a set of Linux (RedHat) boxes

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