# How to clear the terminal of VS code?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-clear-the-terminal-of-vs-code/107216
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** question, vscode
**Created:** [December 6, 2023, 12:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-clear-the-terminal-of-vs-code/107216 "2023-12-06T12:20:02Z")
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How to clear the terminal of VS code?

In MATLAB, we have ‘clc’.

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You can use `;clear` (the `;` invokes the shell). And then simply hit backspace to get back to the Julia REPL. Or is that not what you want?

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#### Post date: [December 6, 2023, 2:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-clear-the-terminal-of-vs-code/107216/3 "2023-12-06T14:34:50Z")

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There is a VSCode command called `Terminal: Clear` that you can access from the command pallette:  
 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/7/1/71d2b0636e9922841452307d745f3940afb95d7d.png)

![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/1/7/176d964b8547c20a004e3712a5eb82a7d154e77f.png)

You can set your own keyboard shortcut for it by clicking the settings cog on the right.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/2/a/2a0facaa708e41978da4f528d60280bfba77ad30.png)

Now Ctrl+L (or whatever you set as the shortcut) will clear the active terminal (including the Julia REPL).