Viewing Your History and More
By default, the previous 1000 commands you have run are saved in your /home directory in a file called .bash_history. You can edit this file. You can delete this file.
You can change the number of commands saved in your history by editing this line in the .bashrc file in your /home directory to whatever number you want:
HISTSIZE=1000
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