Terminal control/Clear the screen

Revision as of 18:24, 4 October 2010 by rosettacode>Markhobley (Placeholders for other languages)

Clear the terminal window

Task
Terminal control/Clear the screen
You are encouraged to solve this task according to the task description, using any language you may know.

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>