
If you see the above response if you tried running the cls command on macOS terminal on Big Sur zsh shell, well you just ran a Windows command on macOS! CLS: Clear Screen is a Window's command prompt command, you need to use the equivalent clear command instead|.
code2care@mac ~ % cls
zsh: command not found: cls
code2care@mac ~ %
code2care@mac ~ % clear
code2care@mac ~ % man clear
clear(1) clear(1)
NAME
clear - clear the terminal screen
SYNOPSIS
clear
DESCRIPTION
clear clears your screen if this
is possible. It looks in the
environment for the terminal type
and then in the terminfo database
to figure out how to clear the
screen.
clear ignores any command-line
parameters that may be present.
SEE ALSO
tput(1), terminfo(5)
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