Terminal control/Clear the screen
Terminal control/Clear the screen
You are encouraged to solve this task according to the task description, using any language you may know.
You are encouraged to solve this task according to the task description, using any language you may know.
Clear the terminal window
Ada
Algol68
awk
system("clear")
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
<lang bash>clear</lang>