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Tech198

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Mar 21, 2011
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Seems Apple broke history -c press Enter in Terminal in Sierra..

It only clears for current session only.. not across sessions as prior OS's (e.g Try closing Terminal afterwards, the re-open, you should find your history is still there.

Can anyone else verify if this is a problem as well?
 
Tech198 said:
Seems Apple broke history -c press Enter in Terminal in Sierra..

It only clears for current session only.. not across sessions as prior OS's (e.g Try closing Terminal afterwards, the re-open, you should find your history is still there.

Can anyone else verify if this is a problem as well?
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You're right indeed. it does however remove history of itself across all sessions. Sure this isn't a deliberate change though? Have you read the man pages all the way through?
And is it really important? I mean, Unix compatibility is important, but clearing the history isn't exactly the most valuable command I can think of.
 
casperes1996 said:
You're right indeed. it does however remove history of itself across all sessions. Sure this isn't a deliberate change though? Have you read the man pages all the way through?
And is it really important? I mean, Unix compatibility is important, but clearing the history isn't exactly the most valuable command I can think of.
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And if that worried then rm ~/.bash_history in a shell will get rid of it anyways.
 
um.. after showing all hidden files .bash_history is there, and although rm command deletes history, the last commend is still showing... Maybe this is just how its done now..
 
Tech198 said:
um.. after showing all hidden files .bash_history is there, and although rm command deletes history, the last commend is still showing... Maybe this is just how its done now..
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Of course the last command is shown it was not in the file when it was deleted only after it was run did it get appended to newly created file...
 
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