On 01/11/2019 05:00 AM, Peter Nabbefeld wrote: > Hm, I guess it's because it has been saved once (by closing the tab) If you have more than one tab open (e.g. you have several terminals open in tabs -- like you can do in konsole in KDE), then the buffering of history is handled in an application specific way (you only have one ~/.bash_history file, but you have multiple terminals open that feed information to it) When you need to modify your ~/.bash_history content, I generally close all apps that have a terminal and just use a single xterm to manipulate the history file. You can actually write your history file out to a separate text file, remove entries, and then read it back in as your history. see the -w and -r options to history in man bash. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
