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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

history displays a list of all commands you have run on the terminal since the history list was last cleared. It is invaluable for referring back to a big complex command or set of commands you ran at some point in the past. The -c flag clears that history.

[–] zemja 11 points 11 months ago

Fuck, I just cleared my history.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

dont you also need history -w to save it?

on ubuntu -c doesnt actually clear it unless you also use -w

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yes, my comment only applies to the shell history in memory. -c clears history immediately, but you can still reload it from disk if you haven't overwritten that with -w. If you tend to close your terminal windows frequently and rely on the history feature between sessions, it would benefit you to learn about the intricacies of the on-disk copy of history and how its affected by writes, appends, clears, crashes, etc. I tend to leave my terminal windows open a long time and copy any complex commands out to my PKM if I need to save them for future sessions, so I generally try not to rely on .bash_history, but it has saved my bacon on more than one occasion.