Manually edit terminal command history

Question

My terminal history has hundreds of command, but I just want to keep a few of them

Is there a way to manually edit the list of command executed in the terminal?

Answer 1

While this would be rather tedious now that almost every command gets logged in your history, you can edit your ~/.bash_history file.

Answer 2

to review your history, open the terminal and just type history

I would recommend making a copy first by opening a terminal and using this CLI cp ~/.bash_history ~/.bash_history_old

then edit the "old" one, Once you are satisfied with the result run this cp ~/.bash_history_old ~/.bash_history this will replace the current history. You will be prompted to overwrite y/n?