clear - clear the screen
clear
Look in the termcap database, find the character to clear the screen, and
emit it.
This is a direct lift from Section 15.7, Ringing the Terminal Bell, from
Perl Cookbook, with cl
substituted for vb
.
Jeffrey S. Haemer
clear should probably take an argument, like yes, that will let users send arbitrary termcap sequences, with cl
as the default.
Term::Cap(3)