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i agree that no program should have 1 character name, but what do you currently alias 'c' to?

"Repeat `argv[2]` on stdout `argv[1]` times."

i.e., "c 128 A" -> AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

Pentesters! :)

Unless you really use it liberally, you can just use jot:

    $ jot -b test -c 3
    test
    test
    test

clear screen

There is no reason to use clear during a terminal session. ^L (Ctrl-L) does this for you in one key press, without needing to clear your input or fill your history.

> There is no reason to use clear during a terminal session. ^L (Ctrl-L) does this for you in one key press, without needing to clear your input or fill your history.

Isn't this based on the assumption that one's shell explicitly supports ^L or has editline/readline support?

What about ^C+l ?

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