Clear/clean out the view of current Terminal .jar?

Question

I am aware of the clear command in a Terminal that will clear off the screen and return you to just (in my case): harrisbookpro: ~harris$ and I just wanted to see if it was possible to do the same in my program (which runs through the terminal).

Answer 1

if you are using a terminal that undersands ansi-esc codes (like for example any linux terminal that uses the xterm protocol) you can use

System.out.println("\033[2J\n");

to clear the screen

Answer 2

System.out.println("\033[2J"); works on Linux.