X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fhtml%2Fman%2Fclear.1.html;h=37ef20c0df4b3985e17b65cafd2d6aabaff10783;hp=2a21936a69af82d76927112ec293071a20506b26;hb=61790aa3ac9e0dff2b443ac567b174fc4d235b86;hpb=0485620c03e69b1b58a6b12e5e45c98415fc7575 diff --git a/doc/html/man/clear.1.html b/doc/html/man/clear.1.html index 2a21936a..37ef20c0 100644 --- a/doc/html/man/clear.1.html +++ b/doc/html/man/clear.1.html @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ @@ -34,15 +35,15 @@ - + clear 1 - +

clear 1

-clear(1)                                                              clear(1)
+clear(1)                    General Commands Manual                   clear(1)
 
 
 
@@ -70,9 +71,10 @@

OPTIONS

        -T type
-            indicates the type of terminal.  Normally this option is  unneces-
-            sary,  because  the default is taken from the environment variable
-            TERM.
+            indicates  the  type  of  terminal.   Normally  this   option   is
+            unnecessary,  because  the  default  is taken from the environment
+            variable TERM.  If -T is specified, then the shell variables LINES
+            and COLUMNS will also be ignored.
 
        -V   reports the version of ncurses which was used in this program, and
             exits.  The options are as follows:
@@ -82,20 +84,21 @@

HISTORY

-       A clear command appeared in 2.79BSD dated  February  24,  1979.   Later
+       A  clear  command  appeared  in 2.79BSD dated February 24, 1979.  Later
        that was provided in Unix 8th edition (1985).
 
-       AT&T  adapted  a  different  BSD  program  (tset) to make a new command
-       (tput), and used this to replace the clear command with a shell  script
+       AT&T adapted a different BSD program  (tset)  to  make  a  new  command
+       (tput),  and used this to replace the clear command with a shell script
        which calls tput clear, e.g.,
 
-         /usr/bin/tput ${1:+-T$1} clear 2> /dev/null
-         exit
+           /usr/bin/tput ${1:+-T$1} clear 2> /dev/null
+           exit
 
-       In 1989, when Keith Bostic revised the BSD tput command to make it sim-
-       ilar to the AT&T tput, he added a shell script for the clear command:
+       In 1989, when Keith Bostic revised the BSD  tput  command  to  make  it
+       similar  to  the  AT&T  tput,  he  added  a  shell script for the clear
+       command:
 
-         exec tput clear
+           exec tput clear
 
        The remainder of the script in each case is a copyright notice.
 
@@ -108,14 +111,14 @@
            sequence for clearing the screen.  Rather than  clearing  just  the
            visible part of the screen using
 
-             printf '\033[2J'
+               printf '\033[2J'
 
            one could clear the scrollback using
 
-             printf '\033[3J'
+               printf '\033[3J'
 
-           This  is  documented in XTerm Control Sequences as a feature origi-
-           nating with xterm.
+           This  is  documented  in  XTerm  Control  Sequences  as  a  feature
+           originating with xterm.
 
        o   A few other terminal developers adopted the feature, e.g., PuTTY in
            2006.
@@ -147,7 +150,7 @@

SEE ALSO

        tput(1), terminfo(5)
 
-       This describes ncurses version 6.0 (patch 20170819).
+       This describes ncurses version 6.2 (patch 20210102).