How to reset teminal under mac os x programmatically

Question

Similar to the question How to reset teminal under mac os x, I was wondering how to reset the scrollback buffer of a mac osx terminal window from a script.

I know I can hit Cmd-K to reset it manually, but I often forget to do this before running a script with a lot of output. It would be easier to remove the scrollback buffer at the beginning of my script. The "clear" command doesn't reset the scrollback buffer, so when I scroll up I still see the previous scripts output.

Answer 1

Clear the terminal screen & scrollback buffer

Make sure access for assistive devices is enabled in the "Universal Access" System Preference

Take 2:

Command-K = Clear Scrollback, and Terminal supports Applescript:

function clear_screen() {
   /usr/bin/open -a Terminal
   /usr/bin/osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to tell process "Terminal" to keystroke "k" using command down'
   return 0
}

This can then be Invoked by running:

clear_screen

Via: http://codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/1738