How to clear console in MongoDB

mongodb mongo-shell

Judging by Jira they have done it: You need to write cls in the shell.

You can also use a hotkey: CTRL + L.

In macOS: Command + K.

Check more hotkeys for the shell here.

mongodb mongo-shell

If you are using MongoDB 2.0 or higher, the mongo shell supports both:

Note that both of these clear the screen and put the cursor at the top .. but you can still scrollback to see previous history.

In OS X Terminal.app you can also do:

Clearing the screen and/or scrollback buffer are independent of the history, so you can still cursor up/down to run previous commands.

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