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.\"  Copyright 1989 AT&T  Copyright (c) 2002, Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved
.TH clear 1 "12 Jul 2002" "SunOS 5.11" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
clear \- clear the terminal screen
.SH SYNOPSIS
.LP
.nf
\fBclear\fR [\fIterm\fR]
.fi

.SH DESCRIPTION
.sp
.LP
The \fBclear\fR utility clears the terminal screen if this is possible. It looks in the environment for the terminal type, if this is not already specified by the \fIterm\fR operand, and then looks up the terminfo database to figure out how to clear the screen.
.SH OPERANDS
.sp
.ne 2
.mk
.na
\fB\fIterm\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 8n
.rt  
Indicates the type of terminal. Normally, this operand is unnecessary because the default is taken from the environment variable \fBTERM\fR.
.RE

.SH ATTRIBUTES
.sp
.LP
See \fBattributes\fR(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
.sp

.sp
.TS
tab() box;
cw(2.75i) |cw(2.75i) 
lw(2.75i) |lw(2.75i) 
.
ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
_
Availabilitysystem/core-os
.TE

.SH SEE ALSO
.sp
.LP
\fBtput\fR(1), \fBattributes\fR(5)