clear screen option in java [duplicate]

Answer 1

On linux, you can do something like:

System.out.println("\f");

You can also use Jcurses

Answer 2

If you're talking about the console, then no. Writing to the console is just a special case of an output stream. Output streams don't know anything about the screen, as they can be just as easily redirected to a file or another system device.

Answer 3

To clear the screen just type:

System.out.print('\u000C');

Answer 4

For Windows, Java Console API project provides functionality to determine console size and set cursor position. Clearing the screen is trivial with that. It's a version 0.2 now so it's not exactly production ready, but it works.

Alternatively, you can simply print out some new lines via System.out.println(). 640 should be enough for everybody :-) It's not the same as clearing screen, but for user's intents and purposes it'd do.