Github user marmbrus commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1167#issuecomment-46761293
We do have a circular buffer that holds the command output already. We
could probably just add a command to clear it before each command and then
optionally use it as the query result for these types of commands.
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