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A quick guide to the `clear` command, used to clear the screen of the terminal.

Type clear to clear all the previous commands that were ran in the current terminal.

The screen will clear and you will just see the prompt at the top:

Note: this command has a handy shortcut: ctrl-L

Once you do that, you will lose access to scrolling to see the output of the previous commands entered.

So you might want to use clear -x instead, which still clears the screen, but lets you go back to see the previous work by scrolling up.

The clear command works on Linux, macOS, WSL, and anywhere you have a UNIX environment

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