Re: How to clear history of commands in unix

From: Laurenz Albe (albe_at_culturallNOSPAM.com)
Date: 09/09/04

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    Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 07:39:50 +0000 (UTC)

    astrorail <srinee@gmail.com> wrote:
    > exec "$0" returns with a message
    > -tcsh: Command not found.

    grep $LOGNAME /etc/passwd|awk -F: '{ print $7 }'

    This will tell you how to invoke your shell.

    > my shell is tcsh.
    > i restarted the shell but the h command still shows the history
    > commands. May be I am not deleting the proper history file.

    Look at the man page of your shell to find out about command history.

    Yours,
    Laurenz Albe

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