I'm running on Linux. I have the issue both in bash and pwsh shells.
How do I clear the current command prompt in the VS Code terminal?
For example, say you have copied and pasted a very long string into the terminal.
How do you clear what you just pasted?
The only way I know of for getting back to a an empty command prompt involves hitting backspace until you have deleted every character.
Is there any short cut for getting back to an empty prompt?
Thanks!
How do you clear what you just pasted?
There is no command to clear what you have already pasted. You can do Ctrl + C or Ctrl+D to get the next promt.
Now if you want a short-cut to clear command which we use in terminal, its Cmd + k for Mac OS
CTRL + shift + p, then write clear. You can use the clear command in bash terminal too.
Use Console.Clear() in code.
or use 'cls' cmd on console
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I've been stopping commands with the trash can for too long. Command period doesn't work on Mac. I can't find anywhere how to stop the terminal via a command. What is it?
You can terminate with the Trash icon like you do,
or press Ctrl + C. That's the shortcut from the default Terminal application and it also works in Visual Studio Code.
Ctrl + C works in the terminal, but it didn't work for me in Visual Studio Code. However, hitting Q did (when running a git diff for example).
In certain cases, such as running a Node.js server, Ctrl + C wouldn't work. Instead, you can stop the app or command by pressing Ctrl + Alt + M (i.e., Ctrl + Option + M for Mac users).
Sample JavaScript code to demonstrate this:
const http = require('http');
http.createServer((req, res) => {
res.write('Hello, World!!');
res.end();
}).listen(5000, () => console.log('Server running...'));
If you are on Linux, open the shortcuts:
Then type kill, and this option will appear.
Double-click on the record, choose a shortcut for it, open the terminal, Ctrl + J, and press the shortcut you chose.
The difference in pressing Ctrl + J and then Ctrl + J again to close, is that it will not keep the terminal process, but only close it.
Neither Ctrl + C nor the trash icon actually stopped the server for me.
If you are using the Live Server extension by Ritwick Day, there should be a label on the bar at the bottom for the status of the server.
If it reads Port: 5500 it means it's running. Just click on it to stop it.
Stop live server
The same label now should say Go Live. Click on it in order to do exactly that.
Start live server
Many Mac users (including me) get confused with the Cmd and Ctrl keys. But Ctrl + C should work fine.
Hitting Esc clears out the terminal and cancels everything.
You can stop any running command by pressing Ctrl + C on your keyboard.
If it is ':' you see, then Q + Enter.
For example: git config --list (this will take you to the colon(':') and you may not be able to escape this)
In Visual Studio Code, first hit Ctrl + C.
It will ask the following question;
Terminate batch job (Y/N)?
Press Y + Enter.
After this, run the following command on the prompt:
exit + <Enter>
It will stop the instance.
You can kind of bypass the issue by writing
system("pause") at the very end of your main function. That works for me like a charm...
In Visual Studio (2022) the shortcut may actually Ctrl+Pause/Break instead of Ctrl+C.
I'm using Powershell in the integrated terminal by adding the following line to the settings.json file.
"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\WindowsPowershell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe",
It works very well, but usually, when I'm in Powershell, typing ctrl+c cancels what I had typed and opens a new line.
But in the integrated terminal it just prints ^C.
Is there a way to fix it or find an alternative method to achieve this?
Thanks
This is with VSCode and not necessarily with the PowerShell Extension. You can see this by just using the default cmd.exe terminal, CTRL+C does nothing. It does not print the ^C at all, and creates no new line.
If you want this to work as expected in the normal command prompt or PowerShell.exe you will need to submit an issue to VSCode repository and request it.
I would expect this is all tied to the keybindings.json file. I went through that file but could not find a command available to the same function that occurs in the full command prompt or console. So this will likely need a new command added for VSCode.
If you search through the keybindings file you can see the terminal has that key CTRL+C bound to copySelection when terminalFocus && terminalTextSelected. This is why the ^C is being output, and no new line is being added.
A workaround:
Pressing Esc will erase the line back to the beginning.
Is there any command in Git, that clear the screen. for example in window command line after execute a lot of code, if you type cls, then it will clear all the previous code. so i want the same type of functionality in Git. so can anybody will tell me the command name.
Actually you are looking for a Unix user environment command
clear
or you can use the keyboard shortcut
ctrl+l
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_(Unix)
To clear entire command history in Git Bash.
history -c
try using reset command, it will absolutely clean your screen but you will still have access to previous commands
reset
Neither clear nor history -c does the work actually.
Scroll up, all commands will be visible.
Solution:
If you are in Windows 10, and using mintty 2.7.9 (or above ?) for git bash,
use Alt + F8 ... this will work.
Best of luck.
Happy coding.
Reference: here (Perhaps it didn't work for Windows 7)
Neither clear nor history -c was clearing the history permanently.
All commands will be visible when scrolled up.
So, I solved the issue by:
In my instance the path for bash history was:
/c/Users/<your_username>/.bash_history
I removed the file by the following commands:
rm ~/.bash_history
After that, I restarted the terminal. the commands were gone.
CTRL + L
search for more shortcuts in: here
Another option is modify (or create in your user folder) your .bash_profile and add this:
alias cls='clear';
With this you can clear the bash with a 'Windows' command.
At the moment I use
clear;reset;clear
(in one line) and it sort of works (git version 2.32.0.windows.1).
Most times clr, clear and cls doesn't work use ctrl c to continue writing commands
use clear only without git command
" clear "
I use Bash and PowerShell interchangeably, and find it quite annoying when I can't do a Ctrl+R on my PowerShell Console.
Is there a plugin/alternate command that can help me switch between Bash and PowerShell seamlessly?
Update (2018)
PowerShell now supports Ctrl + R. Please see this answer.
An alternate command is to type e.g #ls and press Tab keep pressing tab to cycle through all command history that starts with ls.
In previous versions you could type ls then F8 to match history. Keep pressing F8 to cycle through multiple matches.
Note:ls is just a placeholder in this case. Replace it with any command you want.
As of today PowerShell supports the Ctrl + R shortcut.
Simply press Ctrl + R when in the PowerShell console and start typing any part of a command you have run before.
Alternatively:
Start typing part of a command you have run before, and press or hit F8.
Keep pressing F8 to cycle through similar commands.
Take a look at PSReadline: https://github.com/lzybkr/PSReadLine
This module supports interactive history search in emacs mode and you can bind Ctrl+R to ReverseHistorySearch in Windows mode if you prefer.
The long term goal of PSReadline is to make it much easier to switch from bash to PowerShell w.r.t. command line editing while providing a PowerShell experience, e.g. tab completion.
I am currently using CTRL+C and CTRL+V for copy and paste respectively in Ubuntu (16.04). So in this case, how can I terminate /abort a command in Terminal.
NOTE: The control+C does not work for me neither quit() or Exit().
Please advise.
The default terminal (gnome-terminal) uses Ctrl+Shift+c and Ctrl+Shift+v for exactly this reason. If you are in a bash prompt (unclear from context here), you can quit by writing exit.