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.\" Copyright 1992 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
.\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License
.TH CLEAR 1 "10 October 1993" "Linux 0.99" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
clear \- clear terminal screen
.SH SYNOPSIS
.BR clear
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B clear
calls
.BR tput (1)
with the
.I clear
argument. This causes
.B tput
to attempt to clear the screen checking the data in
.I /etc/termcap
and sending the appropriate sequence to the terminal. This command can be
redirected to clear the screen of some other terminal.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR reset (1),
.BR stty (1),
.BR tput (1)
.SH AUTHOR
Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
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