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
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>