How do I clear the terminal in VSCode programmatically?

Question

I would like to clear the terminal each time I run in java automatically. Any idea how I could accomplish this?

Answer 1

I'm sorry to tell you there's no such setting that can clear the terminal automatically, but we have some workarounds except running clear commands in terminal:

1. Add "console": "externalTerminal", in launch.json, then every time you run the java project, there will be an new terminal displayed without previous information;

2. Install Code Runner and add the following code in Settings.json:

    "code-runner.clearPreviousOutput": true,
    "code-runner.showExecutionMessage": false,