On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Eduardo A. Bustamante López < dual...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Take into account that many options have been provided (history -d, the > space > prefix, even editing .bash_history yourself). > > But you request a single key stroke to do this... why? > > If you enter a password by mistake in your shell, and it gets recorded, > then > you go and clean up. It's not hard to do. > > But since you request a simple-and-easy way of doing this, it seems like > you do > this a lot... which you shouldn't! :-) > > Now, it is up to you to convince Chet that it is so important to have a > simple > shortcut to do this. IMO, it isn't. > > -- > Eduardo Bustamante > https://dualbus.me/ > > Just bind your own keystroke to a function which uses history -d: histdel() { local last_command histline last_command=$(history 1) histline="${last_command% *}" history -d "$histline" # I wish history -d accepted negative offsets } bind -x '"\ez": histdel' Then Esc-z or Alt-z will delete the most recent history entry. You could choose another keystroke to bind. -- Visit serverfault.com to get your system administration questions answered.
