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clear

clear the terminal screen


see also : tput

Synopsis

clear


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##What does it do ?

clears the terminal screen
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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.

clear ignores any command-line parameters that may be present.


see also

tput , terminfo

This describes ncurses version 5.9 (patch 20110404).

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