[102382] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Clear history
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Wed Dec 2 17:32:49 1998
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 17:31:19 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Ronnie Thum wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What's the quickest way to clear the history list in .bash_history?
> I deleted the entries in that file but I still see it when I type
> 'history'. Why ?
Because it's in memory.
Log out of all consoles and nxterms, etc,
but one, and type:
exec sh
rm .bash_history
>
>
> TIA
>
> Rgds
> Ronnie
>
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