clear

all

Clears the screen of the terminal.

Examples (4)

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