tldr/pages/common/clear.md

clear

Clears the screen of the terminal.

• Clear the screen (equivalent to pressing Control-L in Bash shell):

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