clear
(1g)
Name
clear - clear the terminal screen
Synopsis
clear
Description
User Commands 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 ter-
minfo database to figure out how to clear the screen.
clear ignores any command-line parameters that may be
present.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
attributes:
+---------------+------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+------------------+
|Availability | library/ncurses |
+---------------+------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+------------------+
SEE ALSO
tput(1), terminfo(5)
This describes ncurses version 5.7 (patch 20081102).
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original
community source was downloaded from
http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-5.7.tar.gz
Further information about this software can be found on the
open source community website at http://www.gnu.org/soft-
ware/ncurses/.
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