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clear

List of commands for clear:

  • clear:tldr:01bc6 clear: Clear the screen (equivalent to pressing Control-L in Bash shell).
    $ clear
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  • clear:tldr:5056c clear: Clear the screen but keep the terminal's scrollback buffer.
    $ clear -x
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  • clear:tldr:65f4b clear: Indicate the type of terminal to clean (defaults to the value of the environment variable `TERM`).
    $ clear -T ${type_of_terminal}
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  • clear:tldr:74ed4 clear: Show the version of `ncurses` used by `clear`.
    $ clear -V
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