clear(1)                             General Commands Manual                             clear(1)



NAME
       clear - clear the terminal screen

SYNOPSIS
       clear

DESCRIPTION
       clear  clears  your  screen  if  this is possible, including its scrollback buffer (if the
       extended "E3" capability is defined).  clear looks in the  environment  for  the  terminal
       type and then in the terminfo database to determine 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 20140913).



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