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Revision as of 06:34, 10 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
AWK
<lang awk>system("clear")</lang>
BASIC
<lang qbasic>CLS</lang>
Batch File
CLS
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 is possile to execute an external system command to achieve this task:
'clear'
There are also various workarounds which are platform specific:
regina
The regina interpreter supports the rexxcurses plugin, which provides the facility to clear the screen:
UNIX Shell
The clear command can be used to clear the terminal screen:
<lang bash>clear</lang>