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

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