Make a break in your terminal without clearing the screen! Give it an arg for how many lines you want (default 3).

br.pl

#! /usr/bin/env perl
use strict;

my $default = 3;
my $lines = @ARGV[0] || $default;
$lines = 3 if $lines < 0;

for( my $i = $lines; $i > 0; $i-- ) {
    if ( $i == ($lines / 2) ||
         $i == (($lines + 1) / 2) ) {
        print "================================================================================";
    }
    print "\n";
}