How to clear mysql screen console in windows?

Question

The title is my question. I googled and try something like

mysql> !\\ clear
mysql> !\\ cls
mysql> system cls
mysql> system clear 

blah blah ...
         


        

Answer 1

This is what I did to get around this bug. The windows console (cmd) is just not worth using for anything other than some simple commands. So the following is what I did.

Installed Cygwin (Go here) It is pretty straight forward to install. You can watch this video. It explains very easily how to install cygwin. Make sure when you select the packages that you want to install includes Mintt (it is basically a better shell or cmd) and mysql client package.

Once you are done installing it, you should add the bin folder from cygwin in your PATH Environmental Variables(The above video explains that as well)

Now You will have an icon on the desktop for cygwin. Open it up and login to mysql using the normal commands. You will need to put the ip of the mysql server in the command to make it work. I use the following logging in MySQL which was installed through wamp

mysql -u root -p -h 127.0.0.1 

You can add more arguments in there if you want. Once you get in mysql just press ctrl + L and you will clear the screen.