FF — Form Feed

Byte	0x0C
Mnemonic	FF
Otty support	✓ (treated as LF)

Description

Historically advanced a printer to the next page. On terminal emulators FF is treated as LF — Otty follows this convention. Some shells use Ctrl-L (which sends FF) as a clear-screen idiom; that's handled by the shell, not the terminal.

Example

printf 'page1\fpage2\n'   # \f is the C escape for FF
                           # behaves like LF

Related

• LF
• ED — what Ctrl-L actually invokes in most shells.