Zsh/How To/Remove History Entry and Reload History on All Terminals

• Remove a Zsh/History entry and reload in all terminals
  • Find the command to remove
    • sh

      history | grep <command>

  • Delete the entry from history
    • Removes the command from the current session's in-memory history but does not remove it from ~/.zsh_history.
    • sh

      history -d <line-number>

  • Remove it from the history file
    • Permanently deletes the command from the history file but does not affect the current session until the file is reloaded.
    • sh

      sed -i '' '/<command>/d' ~/.zsh_history

  • Reload history in all terminals
    • sh

      killall -SIGUSR1 zsh

  • Verify the command is gone
    • sh

      history | grep <command>