April 12, 2024•Arnošt Havelka

CLEAR - Clear the Screen

Learn to clear terminal output

When your terminal gets cluttered with too much text, you can start fresh by running the clear command. This hides all previous commands and outputs from the screen.

Simply type clear and press enter to get a clean workspace.

Knowledge Check

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Which command clears the Bash terminal screen?

cls

clear

clean

reset

References

These documentation links provide authoritative details for the commands used in this article.

GNU Bash Reference Manual
GNU Coreutils Manual

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