Terminal control/Dimensions

Terminal control/Dimensions 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.

Determine the height and width of the terminal, and store this information into variables for subsequent use.

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:

UNIX Shell

Works with: Bourne Shell

<lang bash>

Terminal control/Dimensions 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

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:

regina

The regina interpreter supports the rexxcurses plugin, which provides the facility to clear the screen:

UNIX Shell

Works with: Bourne Shell

<lang bash>

#!/bin/sh
WIDTH=`tput cols`
HEIGHT=`tput lines`
echo "The terminal is $WIDTH characters wide and has $HEIGHT lines

</lang>