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