clear
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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 terminfo database to
figure out how to clear the screen.
clear ignores any command-line parameters that may be present.
SEE ALSO
tput(1), terminfo(5)
This describes ncurses
version 5.7 (patch 20090207).