Is it possible to write empty history to file ?

[Jai-JAP]

I am using ble-sh latest git & I want to clear my shell history which is too large.

My env info:

GNU bash, version 5.1.16(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) [Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS]
ble.sh, version 0.4.0-devel4+1afc616b (noarch) [git 2.34.1, GNU Make 4.3, GNU Awk 5.1.0, API: 3.0 (GNU MPFR 4.1.0, GNU MP 6.2.1)]
bash-completion, version 2.11 (hash:b42f5d6a7ad6d4921ec73838ba54a96d6bd30936, 77071 bytes) (noarch)
locale: LANG=en_IN
terminal: TERM=xterm-256color wcwidth=auto-auto/15.0-2+ri, vte:6800 (65;6800;1)

When using ble/builtin/history; history -c works but immediately running history -w doesn't work whereas history -w does work, (Notice the preceding space to skip saving history) but saves history -w to history.
Running command history -w works as intended (saves empty history), but its not convenient every-time.

So, my query is:
Whether we can save empty history to file using ble/builtin/history as simply as running history -w after history -c

[akinomyoga]

Thanks. I added changes to ble/builtin/history -w in commit c78e5c9. Could you update ble.sh by running ble-update in a ble.sh session and check the behavior?

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Edit: It should be noted that the behavior of ble/builtin/history is intentionally changed in the initialization stage of Bash (in .bashrc or .bash_profile) because Bash's default behavior is sometimes inconsistent there. It is generally not recommended to use history builtins inside .bashrc or .bash_profile.

[Jai-JAP]

Thanks. Now it works perfectly as I wanted.
Thanks for your quick response.