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
AWK
<lang awk>system("clear")</lang>
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
<lang bash>clear</lang>