How to delete history of last 10 commands in shell?

Question

Commands follows

  511  clear
  512  history
  513  history -d 505
  514  history
  515  history -d 507 510 513
  516  history
  517  history -d 509
  518  hist         


        

Answer 1

history -c will clear all histories.

Answer 2

Have you tried editing the history file directly:

~/.bash_history

Answer 3

I used a combination of solutions shared in this thread to erase the trace in commands history. First, I verified where is saved commands history with:

echo $HISTFILE

I edited the history with:

vi <pathToFile>

After that, I flush current session history buffer with:

history -r && exit

Next time you enter to this session, the last command that you will see on command history is the last that you left on pathToFile.

Answer 4

Not directly the requested answer, but maybe the root-cause of the question:

You can also prevent commands from even getting into the history, by prefixing them with a space character:

# This command will be in the history
echo Hello world

# This will not
 echo Hello world

Answer 5

to delete last 10 entries (based on your example) :

history -d 511 520

Answer 6

for x in `seq $1 $2`
do
  history -d $1
done