Cascade Historian™ : Version 7.2
	Commands

`flush`

flush — writes buffered data to disk.

Syntax

(flush [pattern])

Arguments

pattern: The name of one or more (using a globbing pattern) histories previously defined by the history command. When this parameter is not specified, the default is *, to include all histories.

Returns

t (true) if successful, otherwise

(error "No history matching pattern")

Description

This command removes the data for the specified history or histories from the buffer and writes them to the associated files. If no pattern is specified, all buffers are flushed to file.

This command corresponds to the Cogent C API function HI_Flush and the hist_flush dynamic library function.

Example

[sh]$ lsend Hist
Hist> (flush p3)
t
Hist> (flush p*)
t
Hist> (flush)
t
Hist>


filebase		histdb