linux man page for clear

Query: clear

OS: linux

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clear(1)						      General Commands Manual							  clear(1)

NAME
clear - clear the terminal screen
SYNOPSIS
clear
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 fig- ure out how to clear the screen. clear ignores any command-line parameters that may be present.
SEE ALSO
tput(1), terminfo(5) This describes ncurses version 5.9 (patch 20110404). clear(1)
Related Man Pages
clear(3xcurses) - opensolaris
tput(1) - netbsd
clear(3xcurses) - sunos
clear(1) - minix
clear(1) - plan9
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