Is there a way to set the terminal background from a shell
so that the color attribute is changed to that color and
the new background rendition of the terminal is applied
to every character position on the screen possibly
clearing the screen? The clear command seems to
lack such functionality.

All suggestions are welcome!

Thanks,

Neil

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TERM=xterm-color export TERM
tput setab 4
tput clear

that works for me.

Cyrille.
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(must be T.Dickeys xterm, as the MIT xterm doesn't know color)

<URL:http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html>:
TERM=xterm-xfree86

package contains terminal description, as does ncurses, and also an
explanation of all control/escape sequences (the latter is why i post)

Sven