On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 4:05 PM, Dennis Williamson < dennistwilliam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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 "$histline" # I wish history -d accepted negative > offsets > } > > bind -x '"\ez": histdel' > > Then Esc-z or Alt-z will delete the most recent history entry. You could > choose another keystroke to bind. > > > -- > Visit serverfault.com to get your system administration questions > answered. > Actually, this is better: histdel() { ( # use a subshell to make extglob setting and function variables local last_command=$(history 1) # strip modified-entry marker, it doesn't matter if we delete an asterisk in the command since we're deleting it anyway last_command=${last_command/\*/ } shopt -s extglob last_command=${last_command##*( )} # strip leading spaces histline="${last_command%% *}" history -d "$histline" # I wish history -d accepted negative offsets ) } bind -x '"\ez": histdel' I'm using a subshell here. You can use the local keyword for variables and save and restore the extglob setting if you prefer. -- Visit serverfault.com to get your system administration questions answered.
