clear history from shell

[Karl Auer]

On Tue, 2016-05-17 at 07:27 +0100, Grizzly wrote:
> Monday, May 16, 2016  at 23:57, Karl Auer wrote:
> Re: clear history from shell (at least in part)
> 
> > On Mon, 2016-05-16 at 13:18 +0100, Grizzly wrote:
> > > I have a simple script,
> 
> > You changed the shell from bash (or dash) to sh in the first line
> > of
> > your script. Change it to /bin/bash and your script will run.
> 
> > However, it will not work as you expect - it will clear the history
> > in
> > a new shell, not your interactive shell. And it will not exit your
> > shell.
> 
> Yes I see that (or don't see anything) now
> 
> > After fixing the shell specifier, you could run the script like
> > this
> > and it would sort of work:
> 
> > . Scripts/myclean.sh
> 
> Now that works a dream

Are you sure? I think it's probably just doing the clear, not the write
and not the exit.

Regards, K.

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