clear history in the terminal

[Filippos Klironomos]

First do a

history -c

and then a

history -w

to actually write everything on the .bash_history file (and overwrite it).
Then a

reset

clears the scroll buffer as well and all the past is forgotten and erased!

Filippos



On 5/10/06, Dennis Castanos <dennismouille at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I hope this isn't a stupid question!
> Can the history commands in the terminal be cleared? If so, how is it
> done?
> Dennis
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