clear

NAME

clear - clear terminal display

clear

The clear(1) utility clears the screen of your terminal. It leaves the cursor in the "home" position, at the top left corner of the screen.

The clear(1) command ignores any arguments.

Only the visible contents of the terminal window are cleared. The screen buffer preceding the cleared area is preserved.

The clear(1) utility does not properly clear the terminal screen if you use any means other than stty(1) to resize an open terminal window.

_POSIX_TERM: When set to "on," this environment variable indicates that POSIX-style terminal semantics are on.
TERM: Specifies the type of terminal.
TERMCAP: Contains either the location of the termcap file, as an absolute path name (it must start with /), or a termcap terminal description entry, to be used instead of the termcap entry for the current terminal type. If it contains an entry, the entry has no newlines.
TERMPATH: A space- or colon-separated list of absolute file names. If TERMCAP is not set, clear(1) searches for the appropriate terminal entry in these files.