I just start every command with a space, don’t see the issue.
WDYM your terminal isn't a test suite?
Submitted 10 months ago by sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf to programmer_humor@programming.dev
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allywilson@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
mumblerfish@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Was working on a server where I did not want to put some dumb command into the history, so I add a space like you do. Press . The command is there. The fucking insult I felt.
PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 10 months ago
It’s not disabled by default, but you can enable it in .bashrc and then delete that edit session using a spaced command.
superbirra@lemmy.world 10 months ago
it also depends on the shell, in zsh it persists on local history but does not get written to history file
zemja@programming.dev 10 months ago
Can somebody please tell me what
history -cis?survivalmachine@beehaw.org 10 months ago
history displays a list of all commands you have run on the terminal since the history list was last cleared. It is invaluable for referring back to a big complex command or set of commands you ran at some point in the past. The -c flag clears that history.
zemja@programming.dev 10 months ago
Fuck, I just cleared my history.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
dont you also need history -w to save it?
on ubuntu -c doesnt actually clear it unless you also use -w
akdas@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It let’s you clear the bash command history, either completely or selectively. Here’s the GNU docs for the history builtin: www.gnu.org/…/Bash-History-Builtins.html#index-hi…
(I’m not too familiar, someone else can clarify: is this available outside bash?)
What’s interesting to me is the
-aoption, which lets you “flush” the history for the current session without ending the session. I can see that being useful!
textik@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Don’t fucking do this in zsh, it does NOT do the same thing that it does in bash.
sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 10 months ago
What does it do? 😳
superbirra@lemmy.world 10 months ago
the same :)
aCodeCrafter@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Welp, just did this to see what -c does…
Excuse me whilst I cry myself to sleep
sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 10 months ago
🥺
emly_sh_@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Can someone explain, I don’t get it.
ripcord@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If you clear your history, you feel like a SpongeBob popsicle for some reason? That’s what I’m reading. Gotta be it.
emly_sh_@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Weird, I clear my history very frequently and never once felt like a SpongeBob popsicle.
andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 10 months ago
I legitimately back up my history file. Mostly because it likes to truncate itself randomly (though this may have been fixed in zsh, or my config, because it’s been a while). Just a systemd timer that triggers a shell script to copy it by date and rotate anything older than 100 copies.
jelloeater85@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Have you tried Atuin? It’s amazing.
andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 10 months ago
I did try it for a bit. IIRC it slowed me down more than I cared for. Maybe worth trying again, though.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I’m annoyed when my thirteen bash instances don’t share history, but I’d probably be a lot more annoyed if they did.
andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 10 months ago
That’s one thing I like about zsh, or my config at least, because I use i3 and therefore tend to open lots of shells. History is mostly local until I hit return twice (two empty prompts) at which point I can get history from other sessions. It’s stuck more global at that point though aside from future history.
sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 10 months ago
Haha, my bad!
andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 10 months ago
Fortunately I have my hourly backups! 😅