Clear historical commands recorded in history under Linux

The following column Linux Tutorial will introduce to you how to clear the historical commands recorded in the history in the Linux environment. I hope it will be helpful to friends in need!

1. History

This command can view the history commands used

2. History -c

This command and parameters can clear the history command record

View again

The command record is empty

Remarks: Knowledge expansion

This command only deletes the command records of the current user and will not delete those of other users.

In fact, these records are in files similar to .bash_history in the current user's home directory. Of course, it depends on what shell you use.

For example: vim ~/.bash_history Open the historical command record file under the current user.

cat or vim ~/.bash_history View the contents of the file

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