To remove or clear all the text on the terminal, you can use the clear
Linux command.
TL;DR
# clear the texts on the terminal
clear
For example, let's say we have already executed some commands in the terminal like mkdir hello
, ls
, and echo "Hello World"
.
And terminal is filled with the output texts of the executed commands like this,
~/Desktop
❯ mkdir hello
~/Desktop
❯ ls
hello
curl.txt
~/Desktop
❯ echo "Hello World"
Hello World
Now to clear the terminal, we can execute the clear
command like this,
# clear the texts on the terminal
clear
After executing the above commands, the terminal will be cleared and more space will be available for the user.
When executing the clear
command, the contents are not essentially cleared but the executed commands output texts are shifted above the terminal cursor.
That's all 😃.