clear(1)

clear(1)

NAME

clear - clear terminal screen

SYNOPSIS

clear

DESCRIPTION

clear clears the terminal screen if it is possible to do so. It reads the TERM environment variable for the terminal type, then reads the appropriate terminfo database to determine how to clear the screen.

c

FILES

/usr/share/lib/terminfo/?/* terminal database ®les

AUTHOR

clear was developed by the University of California, Berkeley.

SEE ALSO terminfo(4).

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