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clear

Clears the screen of the terminal. More information: https://manned.org/clear.

  • Clear the screen (equivalent to pressing Control-L in Bash shell):

clear

  • Clear the screen but keep the terminal's scrollback buffer:

clear -x

  • Indicate the type of terminal to clean (defaults to the value of the environment variable TERM):

clear -T {{type_of_terminal}}

  • Display the version of ncurses used by clear:

clear -V