When have the garbage in the command line, I can simply hit escape and it is cleaned. Nothing happens in Linux. What is the corresponding command? Backspace over the whole string is boring and stupid.

I would like to crosspost to both linux and unix forum, since I think this applies to both.

2 Answers

You could use

ctrl+l

to clear your screen. Or

ctrl+u

to clear the line before your cursor. Or

ctrl+c 

to abort your command.

2

Use reset to clear the terminal all the way up.

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