Clear screen in C and C++ on UNIX-based system?

Question

I want to know: how to clean screen on an UNIX-based system? I searched on the Internet, but I\'ve just found how to do it on Windows: system(\"CLS\") I don\'t want exactly

Answer 1

You can use the following code which use termcap for clear screen. (don't forget to link with the library)

#include 
#include 
#include 

void clear_screen()
{
char buf[1024];
char *str;

tgetent(buf, getenv("TERM"));
str = tgetstr("cl", NULL);
fputs(str, stdout);
}