At 11:50 AM -0700 5/10/06, Don Russell wrote: >On 5/10/2006 11:22 AM, Scot L. Harris wrote: >> On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 10:20 -0700, Dennis Castanos 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 >>> >> >> history -c > >While we're on the subject, can history *not* record a command if it is >identical to the previous command? > >It's great being able to recall past commands.... but sometimes I use >the same command multiple times before wanting to go back to some >different one. Is it it useful to know "this command was entered 5 times >in a row? I think it's more useful to just use as a "recall previous >(different) command... > >Is this an RFE sort of thing? I'll gladly create a rfe/bug ... It's more of a RTFM sort of thing. It's all in man bash; search for "history". Look at HISTCONTROL. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
