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Clear the terminal window
Clear the terminal window


Revision as of 21:54, 4 October 2010

Terminal control/Clear the screen is a draft programming task. It is not yet considered ready to be promoted as a complete task, for reasons that should be found in its talk page.

Clear the terminal window

Ada

Algol68

awk

system("clear")

BASIC

Works with: QBasic
Works with: Locomotive Basic
Works with: ZX Spectrum Basic

<lang qbasic>CLS</lang>

Batch File

CLS

COBOL

PureBasic

Clears the whole console content using the current background color. <lang PureBasic>ClearConsole()</lang>

Rexx

The Rexx programming language does not include a facility to clear the screen. However, it might be possible to output ANSI control sequences, and there are various workarounds which are platform specific:

brexx

regina

The regina interpreter supports the rexxcurses plugin, which provides the facility to clear the screen:


UNIX Shell

Works with: Bourne Shell

<lang bash>clear</lang>

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