I am writing an script to dump my history log into another file "myhistory.log", and then clear that history. I have written the following set of commands:
date >> myhistory.log
history >> myhistory.log
history -c
Everything goes well except that the previous history is not cleared. I have tried the following variations:
\history -c
and
CLRH="history -c"
exec $CLRH
What I am missing probably??
By default, for bash, the command history are stored in ~/.bash_history file.
As an alternative you can do this:
#!/bin/bash
date >> ~/myhistory.log
cat ~/.bash_history >> ~/myhistory.log
echo -n "" > ~/.bash_history
This will append to ~/myhistory.log (if the file is already there, else create a new file and write to it) the date when the script was run, dump your history, and clear the ~/.bash_history file.
