clear(1m)

clear1m

Clear the terminal screen

Usage

clear

Overview

clear clears your screen if this is possible. It looks in the environment for the terminal type and then in the terminfo database to figure out how to clear the screen.

Releases

4 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 1.1–1.3
  2. 2.0

From ncurses-bin 1.9.9g-8.10 in Debian 2.0 (Hamm). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.