This is the built-in help made by Microsoft for the command 'Clear-History', in PowerShell version 3 - as retrieved from
Windows version 'Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Standard' 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] <Int32>] [-Newest] [-Confirm] [-WhatIf] [<CommonParameters>]
Clear-History [[-Count] <Int32>] [-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
selected commands.
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Invoke-History
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PS C:\>clear-history
Deletes all commands from the session history.
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PS C:\>clear-history -id 23, 25
Deletes the commands with history IDs 23 and 25.
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PS C:\>clear-history -command *help*, *command
Deletes commands that include "help" or end in "command".
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PS C:\>clear-history -count 10 -newest
Deletes the 10 newest commands from the history.
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PS C:\>clear-history -id 10 -count 3
Deletes the three oldest commands, beginning with the entry with ID 10.