How can I clear the terminal in Visual Studio Code?

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danilo · Feb 9, 2018 · Viewed 112.3k times · Source

I need to clean the contents of the terminal in Visual Studio Code.

Every time I use Maven, the output of the terminal is attached to the previous build, which is confusing me.

How do I clear the terminal window with some command or keyboard shortcut?

cls doesn't work; it only hides the text.

Answer

Use Ctrl+K. This goes clean your console in Visual Studio Code.

Per comments, in later versions of VSCode (1.29 and above) this shortcut is missing / needs to be created manually.

Navigate: File > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts
search for workbench.action.terminal.clear
If it has no mapping or you wish to change the mapping, continue; otherwise note & use the existing mapping
Double click on this entry & you'll be prompted for a key binding. Hold CTRL and tap K. Ctrl + K should now be listed. Press enter to save this mapping
Right click the entry and select Change when expression. Type terminalFocus then press enter.
That's it. Now, when the terminal is in focus and you press ctrl+k you'll get the behaviour you'd have expected to get from running clear/cls.