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How to clear all previous terminal output which is currently visible? Jason Stacy 05-04-2008
Posted by Jason Stacy on May 4, 2008, 8:17 am
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 Assume I have opened a terminal and already performed some commands which
produced some
output lines.

Then I start a perl script which outputs also some line of text.

However I want at first all previous output lines in the terminal to be wiped.
All output should start with an "empty" terminal (of cause beside the prompt).

How can I wipe all old stuff?

In Windows command prompt there is a "cls" command but is not working in
perl/Linux terminals.

Is there an equivalent command?

Jason


Posted by Jürgen Exner on May 4, 2008, 8:31 am
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 jjstacy@yahoo.net (Jason Stacy) wrote:
>However I want at first all previous output lines in the terminal to be wiped.
>How can I wipe all old stuff?

perldoc -q clear: "How do I clear the screen?"

jue

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