Re: query about history management in bash

[Alex Samad <alex@samad.com.au>]

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 04:32:02AM +0530, Rajarshi Tiwari wrote:
> To @Alex >>
> 
> >couldn't you do
> >unset HISTFILE
> >vim <histfile>
> >exit
> 
> I don't follow, but i believe you are trying to suggest that one should
> temporary disable history, edit the file manually, to clean it, and then
> restore.  If this what you suggest, I am already doing it :-) , but looking
> for something that could automate it safely.
no unsetting HISTFILE mean bash will not update the history file, so
edit it with vim and then exit the bash program. I was repling to the
fact that the suggestion was to start the editor in another thread - 

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