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NAME

       clear - clear the terminal screen

SYNOPSIS

       clear

DESCRIPTION

       clear  clears  your  screen  if  this  is  possible.   It  looks in the
       environment for the terminal type and then in the terminfo database  to
       figure out how to clear the screen.

       clear ignores any command-line parameters that may be present.

SEE ALSO

       tput(1), terminfo(5)

       This describes ncurses version 5.7 (patch 20100626).

                                                                      clear(1)