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# clear
> Clears the screen of the terminal.
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> More information: <https://man.archlinux.org/man/clear.1>.
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- Clear the screen (equivalent to pressing Control-L in Bash shell):
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`clear`
- Clear the screen but keep the terminal's scrollback buffer:
`clear -x`
- Indicate the type of terminal to clean (defaults to the value of the environment variable `TERM`):
`clear -T {{type_of_terminal}}`
- Show the version of `ncurses` used by `clear`:
`clear -V`