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1 | .\" Copyright 1992 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) |
2 | .\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License | |
3 | .TH CLEAR 1 "10 October 1993" "Linux 0.99" "Linux Programmer's Manual" | |
4 | .SH NAME | |
5 | clear \- clear terminal screen | |
6 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
7 | .BR clear | |
8 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
9 | .B clear | |
10 | calls | |
11 | .BR tput (1) | |
12 | with the | |
13 | .I clear | |
14 | argument. This causes | |
15 | .B tput | |
16 | to attempt to clear the screen checking the data in | |
17 | .I /etc/termcap | |
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18 | (for the GNU or BSD |
19 | .BR tput ) | |
20 | or in the terminfo database | |
21 | (for the | |
22 | .B ncurses | |
23 | .BR tput ) | |
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24 | and sending the appropriate sequence to the terminal. This command can be |
25 | redirected to clear the screen of some other terminal. | |
26 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
27 | .BR reset (1), | |
28 | .BR stty (1), | |
29 | .BR tput (1) | |
30 | .SH AUTHOR | |
31 | Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) |