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Re: bash and the missing clear command
- To: Valery Fine <Valeri dot Faine at cern dot ch>
- Subject: Re: bash and the missing clear command
- From: Jason Tishler <jt at boxhill dot com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 14:56:11 -0500
- CC: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Organization: Box Hill Systems Corporation
- References: <199702191658.RAA27552@sp072.cern.ch>
- Reply-To: jt at boxhill dot com
Valery Fine wrote:
> May be
>
> $ComSpec /c cls
>
> will be better
The above will not work under bash because the definition of COMSPEC
(at least on my machine) is a Windows style pathname (eg.,
C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe). Hence, bash will complain as follows:
$ $COMSPEC /c cls
bash.exe: C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe: command not found
Jason
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