Clear ( Unix ) - Wikipedia Clear ( Unix ) Clear being used on Linux under uxterm clear is a standard Unix computer operating system command which is used to clear the screen. Depending on the system, clear uses the terminfo or termcap database, as well as looking into the environment for the terminal type in order to deduce how to clear the screen. The Unix command clear takes no arguments and is roughly analogous to the MS - DOS command cls. See also List of Unix programs External links The manual ( man ) page for clear Unix command - line interface programs and shell builtins File system cat chmod chown chgrp cksum cmp cp dd du df file fuser ln ls mkdir mv pax pwd rm rmdir split tee touch type umask Processes at bg crontab fg kill nice ps time User environment env exit logname mesg talk tput uname who write Text processing awk basename comm csplit cut diff dirname ed ex fold head iconv join m4 more nl paste printf sed sort strings tail tr uniq vi wc xargs Shell builtins alias cd echo test unset wait Searching find grep Documentation man Software development ar ctags lex make nm strip yacc Miscellaneous bc cal expr lp od sleep true and false Categories Standard Unix programs Unix SUS2008 utilities List This Unix - related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clear_(Unix)&oldid=643537257 '' Categories : Unix stubs Unix software Talk About Wikipedia Azərbaycanca Čeština Ελληνικά Español فارسی Français 한국어 Italiano Magyar 日本 語 Polski Português 中文 4 more Edit links This page was last edited on 21 January 2015, at 16 : 36. About Wikipedia

Question: which command is used to clear the screen in linux
Answer: clear