03-18-2015
tput POSIX maybe not, because POSIX != *ix (as weird as that sounds). But tput (with terminfo) will work on Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, SVR4 implementations, SVR3 implementations and most all SVR2 implementations.
Which is why I was surprised that FreeBSD didn't go that way.
So... really, I think it's probably best to say tput with terminfo capabilities doesn't work on FreeBSD but works (practically speaking) everywhere else :-)
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NAME
clear - clear the terminal screen
SYNOPSIS
clear [-Ttype] [-V] [-x]
DESCRIPTION
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the environment for the terminal type given by the environment variable TERM, and then in the terminfo database to determine how to clear
the screen.
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screen), and later cat the file to the screen, clearing it at that point.
OPTIONS
-T type
indicates the type of terminal. Normally this option is unnecessary, because the default is taken from the environment variable TERM.
If -T is specified, then the shell variables LINES and COLUMNS will also be ignored.
-V reports the version of ncurses which was used in this program, and exits. The options are as follows:
-x do not attempt to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer using the extended "E3" capability.
HISTORY
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