Man Pages - Manpage for clear

Posted May 26th, 2004 in Man Pages (Updated June 15th, 2004)

Man page for the unix linux bsd command clear.

• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
• SEE ALSO

NAME

clear - clear the terminal screen

SYNOPSIS

clear

DESCRIPTION

clear clears your screen if this is possible. It looks in the environment for the terminal type and then in the terminfo database to figure out how to clear the screen.

SEE ALSO

tput(1), terminfo(5)

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