Thursday, April 16, 2015

How to get back the deleted histoy in terminal prompt? - a Linux tip

As we know very well about history command that shows the list of commands of a particular terminal.
# history
In this, history -c command is used to clear the history. Remember, you cannot get back the history by pressing up or down arrows now.
But there is a trick to get back the cleared history by giving the following command in the terminal.
#script
One transcript file will be generated after giving this command. Now, don’t give any other command immediately. You need to press up & down arrows for getting back the history.

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