How do I automatically clear VS Code terminal when starting a build?

Question

I press Ctrl+Shift+B to start a build in Visual Studio Code (it\'s configured to just run GNU Make), and the build tool out

Answer 1

If you control the build task yourself, it's easy to prepend a clear command:

"tasks": [
    {
        "label": "build",
        "type": "shell",
        "command": "clear && make",
....