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Re: history issue - bug?

From bw <bwtnguy@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: history issue - bug?
Date 2018-01-14 18:20 +0100
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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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history issue - bug? Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2018-01-14 14:10 +0100
  Re: history issue - bug? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-01-14 15:50 +0100
    Re: history issue - bug? Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2018-01-14 17:50 +0100
      Re: history issue - bug? bw <bwtnguy@yahoo.com> - 2018-01-14 18:20 +0100
        Re: history issue - bug? Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2018-01-14 18:30 +0100
          Re: history issue - bug? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-01-14 19:50 +0100
        Re: history issue - bug? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-01-14 19:10 +0100
          Re: history issue - bug? bw <bwtnguy@yahoo.com> - 2018-01-14 19:40 +0100
          Re: history issue - bug? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-01-14 20:50 +0100
      Re: history issue - bug? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-01-14 20:30 +0100
      Re: history issue - bug? davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2018-01-16 05:40 +0100
  Re: history issue - bug? Felipe Salvador <felipe.salvador@gmail.com> - 2018-01-14 18:30 +0100
    Re: history issue - bug? Felipe Salvador <felipe.salvador@gmail.com> - 2018-01-16 17:50 +0100

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