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WDYM your terminal isn't a test suite? (lemmy.tf)

submitted 9 months ago by sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] zemja@programming.dev 12 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Can somebody please tell me what history -c is?

[–] akdas@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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!

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