Re: Purge History of rm commands

[Mike Frysinger]

On Monday, September 19, 2011 01:18:02 Roger wrote:
> I'm stumped on this as my history is in the format of:
> 
> $ tail ~/.bash_history
> #1316296633
> man bash
> #1316296664
> bash -xv
> #1316372056
> screen -rd
> #1316375930
> exit
> #1316392889
> exit
> 
> Is there a method of purging the history off all rm commands with such a
> file format?  I've tried using history | find | grep | sed, but the
> history doesn't accept more then one history command line number.

so put it into a for loop ?

> I'm guessing the next easiest method is to learn awk/gawk so I can edit the
> above .bash_history file.

gawk '{ c = $0; getline; if ($1 != "rm") { print c; print; } }' .bash_history

> The easiest method, just open the history file with VI/VIM and start
> deleting the 20 or so lines... which I'll likely start doing now. ;-)
> 
> ... or did I miss something?

i rarely use `history`, so i cant suggest any improvements there
-mike

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