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-<H1 class="no-header">clear 1 2024-03-16 ncurses 6.5 User commands</H1>
+<H1 class="no-header">clear 1 2025-04-05 ncurses 6.6 User commands</H1>
<PRE>
<STRONG><A HREF="clear.1.html">clear(1)</A></STRONG> User commands <STRONG><A HREF="clear.1.html">clear(1)</A></STRONG>
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</PRE><H2><a name="h2-NAME">NAME</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG>clear</STRONG> - clear the terminal screen
@@ -84,7 +82,7 @@
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
- Neither IEEE Std 1003.1/The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7
+ Neither IEEE Std 1003.1/The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7
(POSIX.1-2008) nor X/Open Curses Issue 7 documents <STRONG>clear</STRONG>.
The latter documents <STRONG>tput</STRONG>, which could be used to replace this utility
@@ -96,14 +94,14 @@
A <STRONG>clear</STRONG> command using the <EM>termcap</EM> database and library appeared in 2BSD
(1979). Eighth Edition Unix (1985) later included it.
- The commercial Unix arm of AT&amp;T adapted a different BSD program (<STRONG>tset</STRONG>)
- to make a new command, <STRONG>tput</STRONG>, and replaced the <STRONG>clear</STRONG> program with a
+ The commercial Unix arm of AT&amp;T adapted a different BSD program (<STRONG>tset</STRONG>)
+ to make a new command, <STRONG>tput</STRONG>, and replaced the <STRONG>clear</STRONG> program with a
shell script that called "<STRONG>tput</STRONG> <STRONG>clear</STRONG>".
/usr/bin/tput ${1:+-T$1} clear 2&gt; /dev/null
exit
- In 1989, when Keith Bostic revised the BSD <STRONG>tput</STRONG> command to make it
+ In 1989, when Keith Bostic revised the BSD <STRONG>tput</STRONG> command to make it
similar to AT&amp;T's <STRONG>tput</STRONG>, he added a <STRONG>clear</STRONG> shell script as well.
exec tput clear
@@ -139,16 +137,14 @@
to incorporate this extension.
<STRONG>o</STRONG> In 2013, the <STRONG>E3</STRONG> capability was not exercised by "<STRONG>tput</STRONG> <STRONG>clear</STRONG>". That
- oversight was addressed in 2016 by reorganizing <STRONG>tput</STRONG> to share its
+ oversight was addressed in 2016 by reorganizing <STRONG>tput</STRONG> to share its
logic with <STRONG>clear</STRONG> and <STRONG>tset</STRONG>.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG><A HREF="tput.1.html">tput(1)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG>xterm(1)</STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>
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-
-ncurses 6.5 2024-03-16 <STRONG><A HREF="clear.1.html">clear(1)</A></STRONG>
+ncurses 6.6 2025-04-05 <STRONG><A HREF="clear.1.html">clear(1)</A></STRONG>
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