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clear

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 12 Jul 2002
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NAME

clear - clear the terminal screen  

SYNOPSIS

clear [term]  

DESCRIPTION

The clear utility clears the terminal screen if this is possible. It looks in the environment for the terminal type, if this is not already specified by the term operand, and then looks up the terminfo database to figure out how to clear the screen.  

OPERANDS

term Indicates the type of terminal. Normally, this operand is unnecessary because the default is taken from the environment variable TERM.

 

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
AvailabilitySUNWcsu

 

SEE ALSO

tput(1), attributes(5)


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPERANDS
ATTRIBUTES
SEE ALSO

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