opensolaris man page for clear

clear(1)							   User Commands							  clear(1)

NAME
       clear - clear the terminal screen

SYNOPSIS
       clear [term]

DESCRIPTION
       The clear utility clears the terminal screen if this is possible. It looks in the environment for the terminal type, if this is not already
       specified by the term operand, and then looks up the terminfo database to figure out how to clear the screen.

OPERANDS
       term    Indicates the type of terminal. Normally, this operand is unnecessary because the default is taken from	the  environment  variable
	       TERM.

ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO
       tput(1), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.11							    12 Jul 2002 							  clear(1)