This is the built-in help made by Microsoft for the command 'Clear-History', in PowerShell version 2 - as retrieved from
Windows version 'Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Ultimate ' PowerShell help files on 2016-06-23.
For PowerShell version 3 and up, where you have Update-Help, this command was run just before creating the web pages from the help files.
Deletes entries from the command history.
Clear-History [[-Id] <Int32[]>] [[-Count] <int>] [-Newest] [-Confirm] [-WhatIf] [<CommonParameters>]
Clear-History [[-Count] <int>] [-CommandLine <string[]>] [-Newest] [-Confirm] [-WhatIf] [<CommonParameters>]
The Clear-History cmdlet deletes commands from the command history, that is, the list of commands entered during the current session.
Without parameters, Clear-History deletes all commands from the session history, but you can use the parameters of Clear-History to delete select
ed commands.
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C:\PS>clear-history
Description
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Deletes all commands from the session history.
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C:\PS>clear-history -id 23, 25
Description
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Deletes the commands with history IDs 23 and 25.
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C:\PS>clear-history -command *help*, *command
Description
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Deletes commands that include "help" or end in "command".
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C:\PS>clear-history -count 10 -newest
Description
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Deletes the 10 newest commands from the history.
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C:\PS>clear-history -id 10 -count 3
Description
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Deletes the three oldest commands, beginning with the entry with ID 10.