Clear terminal history

[K.Mandla]

How can I clear the terminal history? I don't mean the screen; I want to clear the history of commands entered into the terminal. :confused:

[aysiu]

That history's kept somewhere...?

[K.Mandla]

Don't know. I figured it must be. Am I asking this the right way? When I press the up arrow key inside a terminal, I get the last command I entered. I want to clear that history. Does that make sense, or have I muddled things further?

[lucia_engel]

I'm not sure if there's a command to clear the history, but I know they're stored in ~/.bash_history so I guess what I'd do is open the file up and manually delete the entries.


sudo gedit ~/.bash_history

Anyone knows a better way?

[aysiu]

Whoa! Cool! I didn't know you could do that. Thanks. I'll try to look into solving your problem, though.

[K.Mandla]

Excellent. That'll work for now. Thanks.

(Sorry if it was a bewildering question. I'm selling a laptop with Xubuntu installed and I didn't want my installation commands left in the history. Cheers!)

[aysiu]

This might help:
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:Et9R5vVytI8J:beau.org/pipermail/whitebox-users/2005-January/005190.html+erase+terminal+history+bash_history&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1&lr=lang_en

[K.Mandla]

Hey, now that's slick. Kill the terminal entries on logout. I like that.

[lucia_engel]

ooo turns out it's more simple than that...

history -c

EDIT: weird...the content of .bash_history didn't get deleted though

EDIT again: nvm, I just had to refresh

[desimo]

Thanks, lucia

Works like a charm for me. I have a habit of typing using sudo when I'm not looking at the screen and entering my password as a command... A quick fix - much better than editing the ~/.bash_history file...

[aysiu]

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Dapper#How_to_disable_history_listing_in_Console_m ode

[darkziggy]

go to places home folder press ctrl+H find (.bash_history) double click on it select all and hit backspace to clear and save it and that will clear your terminal history

[FuturePilot]

go to places home folder press ctrl+H find (.bash_history) double click on it select all and hit backspace to clear and save it and that will clear your terminal history

This thread is over 3 years old.....

[Regenweald]

This thread is over 3 years old.....

Waz kind of wondering why K.Mandla would not know that :) did not check the dates. Since then bleachbit now also has a feature to clear bash history. how far we've come :P

[Warpnow]

I still think this thread is neat and every bit relevent.

Never understood why threads get closed simply because they're old.

[cariboo]

Even though a thread is closed, you can still read it. The reason for closing old threads, is that information can become out of date, or there is a newer better way of doing things.

BTW, this thread is closed.

[schauerlich]

Awww, this thread is from back when K.Mandla and aysiu were but little n00blets. Look how they've grown. :)