Show pageOld revisionsBacklinksBack to top This page is read only. You can view the source, but not change it. Ask your administrator if you think this is wrong. ====== Save and restore terminal/screen content ====== ---- dataentry snipplet ---- snipplet_tags: terminal, restore screen LastUpdate_dt: 2010-07-31 Contributors: Greg Wooledge type: snipplet ---- This cool hack uses the terminal capabilities (see ''terminfo(5)'' manual) **smcup** and **rmcup** to save and restore the terminal content. For sure, you’ve already seen those programs that restore the terminal contents after they did their work (like ''vim''). <code> # save, clear screen tput smcup clear # example "application" follows... read -n1 -p "Press any key to continue..." # example "application" ends here # restore tput rmcup </code> snipplets/screen_saverestore.txt Last modified: 2011/06/24 05:11by thebonsai