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Old 08-22-2004, 06:29 PM   #1
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clearing konsole history


Hi, when press up on the keyboard it shows the history of what ityped in... How do i clear this?
 
Old 08-22-2004, 06:41 PM   #2
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I'm not so sure if this is done the same as in slackware but i supposed it is.
to clear your konsole history just do the following:
Code:
history -c
 
Old 08-22-2004, 06:52 PM   #3
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I almost forgot, The maximun number of lines in history is 500 by default, you can decrese that amount by adding this two lines to the profile.
use whatever file editor you are most comfortable with.
since i use emacs i would do the following:
Code:
emacs /etc/profile
then add this two lines
Code:
export HISTFILESIZE=0
export HISTSIZE=50
then saver your changes.
after you've saved your changes do the following
Code:
source /etc/profile
that would set the history file to 50 lines instead of 500

Oh by the way i don't know if under SUSE there is a /etc/profile file.
But just in case there is no profile file you can add those two lines to your .bashrc file. If you don't have a .bashrc file you can create it and then add the lines there.
 
Old 08-22-2004, 10:05 PM   #4
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awesome thanks, so the whole history that i had is gone now right? no cache history or anything correct?
 
Old 08-23-2004, 03:16 AM   #5
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another way is to remove ~/.bash_history file.
 
Old 08-23-2004, 08:21 AM   #6
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Originally posted by minm
awesome thanks, so the whole history that i had is gone now right? no cache history or anything correct?
no - you simply changed the size of it
delete the ~/.bash_history file - this should fix ya

man history you might try that
 
  


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