diff --git a/src/components/client/shell/command/builtin/history.ts b/src/components/client/shell/command/builtin/history.ts
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+++ b/src/components/client/shell/command/builtin/history.ts
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+import type { Args, Term } from "../list";
+import { bold } from "../../color";
+
+import stdout, { stdout_horizontal } from "../../../elements/stdout";
+import SubCommand, { type SubCommandAction } from "../subcommand";
+import history from "../../history";
+import create from "../../../elements/create";
+
+const history_command = new SubCommand("show and manipulate command history")
+
+history_command.add("show", [], "Show the history", function(term: Term) {
+	history.file.inner.forEach((entry, ind) => term.appendChild(stdout(`${ind} ${entry}`)))
+})
+
+history_command.add("clear", ["delete"], "Delete the command history", function(term: Term) {
+	const entries = history.file.inner.length
+	history.file.inner = []
+	term.appendChild(stdout(`Cleared ${entries} entries from the history.`))
+})
+
+export default function history_cmd(term: Term, args: Args) {
+	const subc = args[1]
+	if (subc) {
+		const subc_f = history_command.data[subc]
+		if (subc_f) { subc_f.inner(term) } else {
+			term.appendChild(SubCommand.unknown("history", subc))
+			history_command.data.help.inner(term)
+		}
+	}
+	return true
+}
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diff --git a/src/components/client/shell/command/history.ts b/src/components/client/shell/command/history.ts
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--- a/src/components/client/shell/command/history.ts
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-import type { Args, Term } from "./list";
-import { bold } from "../color";
-
-import stdout, { stdout_horizontal } from "../../elements/stdout";
-import subcmd, { type SubCommandAction } from "./subcommand";
-import history from "../history";
-import create from "../../elements/create";
-
-const history_command = subcmd()
-
-history_command.show = {} as SubCommandAction
-history_command.show.inner = function(term: Term) {
-	history.file.inner.forEach((entry, ind) => term.appendChild(stdout(`${ind} ${entry}`)))
-}
-history_command.show.description = "Show the history"
-
-export default function history_cmd(term: Term, args: Args) {
-	const subc = args[1]
-	if (subc) {
-		const subc_f = history_command[subc]
-		if (subc_f) { subc_f.inner(term) } else { history_command.help.inner(term) }
-	}
-	return true
-}
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