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

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Problem

How to use the clear command: Clears the screen of the terminal. More information: <https://manned.org/clear>.

Solution

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

Clear the screen:
clear


Clear the screen but keep the terminal's scrollback buffer (equivalent to pressing <Ctrl l> in Bash):
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

Code Snippets

Clear the screen

clear

Clear the screen but keep the terminal's scrollback buffer (equivalent to pressing `<Ctrl l>` in Bash)

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

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tldr-pages: common/clear

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