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Re: history issue - bug?




On Sun, 14 Jan 2018, Hans wrote:

> Am Sonntag, 14. Januar 2018, 08:41:21 CET schrieb David Wright:
> Hi David,
> 
> thanks for enlightening me. I always though, that "history -c" would clear all 
> the history and its files as the help file says:
> 
> -c        clear the history list by deleting all of the entries
> 
> So IMO this should delete all related history files, even bash_history. 
> 

Shouldn't it do what it says it will do? 

It says "clear... the list" it does not say delete files.  I can't answer 
the question about how long it has been this way, but I'm sure it is 
documented, so maybe look that up before fiing a bug about it?



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