Question: I want to clearscreen from bash in a cygwin terminal.
I have tried

```
cmd /c cls
echo -e "^V^L"
echo -e "\014"

```

None of these work - they all give a "linefeed". Pressing CTRL+L does work - but I want to call it from a Bash script.

Any ideas?

Answer: 
Alt+F8 to clear screen and Ctrl-L to skip page
I was trying to do something similar and upon researching I found the above answers, I tried to follow some of the above solutions, I added the line to .bashrc, but it did not accept the function, I tweaked around and found out another solution...it basically executes the ' printf "\33c" but instead of tweaking the .bash.rc file, you simply go to the directory - /cygwin/bin ,
Write the following command :- printf "\033c" 
And save it with the filename "cls" , in the bin directory, ensure that there is NO EXTENSION to the file, thus it will have the type "file" ..save it,open the shell and the command will run...

I found this method by playing around with msys and cygwin, I have both on my windows PC and turns out msys supports the "cls" command, I found a file with the same name in it's bin directory and copied it to the cygwin's bin folder and edited the file with the printf function and this worked like a charm...hope this helps.