OS X: Clear the Terminal

Contributed by davak March 5, 2007  
Tagged: Apple Mac

Several different mechanisms exist for clearing a terminal window. Here are a few of them.

In the middle of a terminal session, it is often nice to blitz the screen and start anew. Here are a few ways of doing it.

The commonly used screen shortcut is the following:

CTRL + L

A command line function is nice when building scripts and such. Here is the one that is frequently used:

clear