How can I partially clear my terminal scrollback?

Question

I want to partially clear my terminal scrollback history, but only from where I have selected with my mouse in the scrollback and up. Is this possible? I'm on a Mac, and I use iTerm2 and Terminal.

Answer 1

Not sure about partially, but you can fully clear your scrollback with Cmd+K. Control+L will only clear the screen, not the scrollback content/history/buffer.

If you want the partial scrollback badly enough, this would probably be the place to implement it.

Answer 2

This is not possible, but you can clear just the screen by pressing Control+L.

Answer 3

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/how-to-clear-the-terminal-command-history/

This will clear the history completely. history -c

No way I could find to do a partial.

Answer 4

This command will most probably give you the possible history files. You can open it in a text editor and edit.

ls -a ~ | grep hist

Answer 5

If I have correctly understood your question, I think that you can achieve that by manually editing your history file, ~/.bash_history.

P.S.: In order to save your current session, you have to first close the Terminal.