Terminal control/Clear the screen

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

Works with: QBasic

Works with: Locomotive Basic

Works with: ZX Spectrum Basic

<lang qbasic>CLS</lang>

Batch File

CLS

Forth

<lang forth>page</lang>

PureBasic

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

Retro

<lang Retro>clear</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:

Works with: Bourne Shell

<lang bash>clear</lang>