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-<H1 class="no-header">clear 1 2023-11-25 ncurses 6.4 User commands</H1>
+<H1 class="no-header">clear 1 2024-03-16 ncurses 6.5 User commands</H1>
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<STRONG><A HREF="clear.1.html">clear(1)</A></STRONG> User commands <STRONG><A HREF="clear.1.html">clear(1)</A></STRONG>
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG>clear</STRONG> clears your terminal's screen and its scrollback buffer, if any.
- <STRONG>clear</STRONG> retrieves the terminal type from the environment variable <STRONG>TERM</STRONG>,
+ <STRONG>clear</STRONG> retrieves the terminal type from the environment variable <EM>TERM</EM>,
then consults the <EM>terminfo</EM> terminal capability database entry for that
type to determine how to perform these actions.
<STRONG>-T</STRONG> <EM>type</EM> produces instructions suitable for the terminal <EM>type</EM>.
Normally, this option is unnecessary, because the terminal
- type is inferred from the environment variable <STRONG>TERM</STRONG>. If this
+ type is inferred from the environment variable <EM>TERM</EM>. If this
option is specified, <STRONG>clear</STRONG> ignores the environment variables
- <STRONG>LINES</STRONG> and <STRONG>COLUMNS</STRONG> as well.
+ <EM>LINES</EM> and <EM>COLUMNS</EM> as well.
<STRONG>-V</STRONG> reports the version of <EM>ncurses</EM> associated with this program
and exits with a successful status.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
Neither IEEE Std 1003.1/The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7
- (POSIX.1-2008) nor X/Open Curses Issue 7 documents <STRONG>tset</STRONG> or <STRONG>reset</STRONG>.
+ (POSIX.1-2008) nor X/Open Curses Issue 7 documents <STRONG>clear</STRONG>.
The latter documents <STRONG>tput</STRONG>, which could be used to replace this utility
either via a shell script or by an alias (such as a symbolic link) to
printf '\033[2J'
- one could clear the scrollback buffer using
+ one could clear the scrollback buffer as well by using
printf '\033[<STRONG>3</STRONG>J'
-ncurses 6.4 2023-11-25 <STRONG><A HREF="clear.1.html">clear(1)</A></STRONG>
+ncurses 6.5 2024-03-16 <STRONG><A HREF="clear.1.html">clear(1)</A></STRONG>
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