OpenSolaris 2009.06 - man page for clear (opensolaris section 1)

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 environ-
       ment 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)