Enhance macOS clear command with neofetch

This will hopefully help you as it has helped me in keeping my terminal windows disciplined when using multiple shells/tmux. When applied, each use of the clear command will also invoke neofetch giving a visually appealing and which-shell-indicative print-out every time you issue the command.

We will also configure an alias called clearall which will invoke **only the original clear binary **

1. Install Homebrew and neofetch if you haven’t already

Install Homebrew

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

https://docs.brew.sh/Installation

Use Homebrew to install neofetch

brew install neofetch

2. Create or open your .zshrc file:

nano ~/.zshrc

3. Paste this at the end of the file.

# enhance 'clear' command by subsequently invoking neofetch
# Redefine clear to run the system clear followed by neofetch
clear() {
    /usr/bin/clear  # Directly call the clear binary
    neofetch
}
 
# call original clear binary using "clearall"
alias clearall=/usr/bin/clear

4. Save and exit the file

• ctl + o to write out
  • press enter when prompted for a name. It must be .zshrc
• ctl + x to exit nano

5. Set your newly saved file as your shell source:

source ~/.zshrc