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minus-squareakdas@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-27 months agoIt lets you clear the bash command history, either completely or selectively. Here’s the GNU docs for the history builtin: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bash-History-Builtins.html#index-history (I’m not too familiar, someone else can clarify: is this available outside bash?) What’s interesting to me is the -a option, which lets you “flush” the history for the current session without ending the session. I can see that being useful!
It lets you clear the bash command history, either completely or selectively. Here’s the GNU docs for the history builtin: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bash-History-Builtins.html#index-history
(I’m not too familiar, someone else can clarify: is this available outside bash?)
What’s interesting to me is the
-a
option, which lets you “flush” the history for the current session without ending the session. I can see that being useful!