Hi! On command prompt and in some pure command-line applications control-l will clear the screen. On full-screen applications it usually redraws whole screen. On shell scripts you can clear the screen with command tput clear Alex Snow 15.07.02: >How can I clear the screen in linux? I mean, like a cls under dos. -- Mr. Ari Moisio, Niittykatu 5, 41160 Tikkakoski gsm: +358-40-5055239, icq: 164241561