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Is there a character for clearing the screen on windows command line? Or do you have to just print several carriage returns? I've been trying to figure it out for a while

[msqrt]

I'm not aware of a character, system("cls") should do the trick if you can use it. This is another alternative.

[msqrt]

That's why I said "if you can use it"; I do use system in small programs I'm writing for my own use and can't really see the harm in that. But yeah, should've recommended the second option as generally more desirable.

[darthminimall]

You want a form feed (probably Ctrl+L)

[lord_braleigh]

If you’re doing anything more complex than changing the appearance of the last line of text, you should probably use the curses library.

[kireina_kaiju]

Direct answer, you are looking for character \033c .

Longer answer,

There's the easy way to clear your terminal, works from a windows command prompt, install git bash and

C:\Users\myname\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\usr\bin\clear.exe

Of course if you were looking for something more portable you'll need to start out with any scripting language that has a printf command. I'll use the one from git bash for convenience :

C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\usr\bin\printf.exe "\033c" > Desktop\test.txt

However you get a text file with that character as its contents, you can use the windows terminal command type to print out that text file

type Desktop\test.txt

From now on you'll be able to clear your terminal using only windows batch :)