CLEAR(1)

🌸 NAME 🌸

clear — bestie, it literally clears the screen 💅✨ (that's it, that's the whole job)

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

clear

no args, no flags, no drama. she just goes 🫶

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so picture this: clear slides into the termcap database like it owns the place 👑, finds the exact character that wipes your screen clean, and emits it. that's the whole personality. nothing else. iconic behavior honestly.

fun lore drop 🍓: this is a direct lift from Section 15.7, Ringing the Terminal Bell, out of the Perl Cookbook, except they swapped "cl" in for "vb". yeah. same recipe, different ingredient. slay 💀

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💖 TYPIST 💖

Jeffrey S. Haemer — the main character who typed this whole thing, we stan 🙈💜

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🔥 BUGS 🔥

ngl, clear should probably take an argument, like yes does — that way users could send arbitrary termcap sequences, with "cl" as the default. right now it just doesn't, and that's the vibe we're living with 😭

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Term::Cap(3) — go read this one next, iykyk ✨

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lowkey the whole flex here: fr fr doing one thing and doing it well 💅

mwah, kiss kiss 💋 this page is literally perl v5.42.2, dated 2026-02-15, and it's serving CLEAR(1) energy from the User Contributed Perl Documentation directory — periodt. 🎀🦋⭐