Bash Keyboard Shortcuts – How to Remap Ctrl-l

If clear is clearing history and the terminal there must be a function, alias or script that is doing that. See what type -a clear tells you.

Another way to clear the terminal is to use tput clear which does exactly the same thing as what clear is supposed to do. You can also try doing it directly using the escape sequence (for xterm for example), but it may be different for different terminals (it should work for any that emulate xterm, such as gnome-terminal, PuTTY, etc.): printf '\e[H\e[2J'

You can access the just-executed command line with the history built-in. (I have no idea why history 1 prints the just-executed command line but fc -nl -1 prints the previous commmand, as does fc -nl 0.)

PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -en "\033[38;5;2m"; history 1; echo -en "\033[0m\n"'

This prints a number before the command text. Here's a version that removes the number. (It may be incorrect if you go beyond 99999 history lines, I don't know how bash formats the number then.)

prompt_function () {
  local prompt_history="$(history 1)"
  prompt_history=${prompt_history:7}
  echo -En $'\033[38;5;2m'"$prompt_history"$'\033[0m\n'
}
PROMPT_COMMAND=prompt_function

(Note that echo -en ..."$prompt_history"... would expand backslashes in the command line, so I use echo -E and let the shell expansion generate the control characters with $''.).