Selective history deletion

[dcuritois]

If you want to remove certain items (say everything that matches "potato") is there an easy way to do it?
It becomes a bit tiresome moving the mouse all the way to the right to click on delete, and then left to click on remove and then back to the right and then back to the middle etc etc

[sander]

rm *potato*
mv *potato*

details depend on operating system

[Handyman1984]

I think dcuritois means in the plush skin sander.

It's not a solution, but:
You can also use your keyboard to navigate. Especially [Tab] and [Enter] might help you, combined with the mouse...

[dcuritois]

I think dcuritois means in the plush skin sander.

Heh, yeah I didn't understand that at all.

I thought sabnzbd was just the interface running in the browser, but it is more?

It's not a solution, but:
You can also use your keyboard to navigate. Especially [Tab] and [Enter] might help you, combined with the mouse...

Thanks for the tip.

Is the information stored in a database one is expected to handle by external means?

[sander]

Is the information stored in a database

Yes, the download history is stored in a SQLite3 database. The file is called history1.db

... one is expected to handle by external means?

I would say no. However, you *can* ...
So if you know what you're doing, and you speak SQL, you could access that file. You could use sqlitebrowser (see http://sqlitebrowser.sourceforge.net/ ) for that.

[dcuritois]

Yeah, I don't know what I'm doing, so I guess I better not.

[sander]

Yeah, I don't know what I'm doing, so I guess I better not.

SQL is new to me, so I tried a few things from sqlitebrowser.These are the command I used:

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SELECT *
FROM history
WHERE name LIKE "%2012%"

DELETE FROM history
WHERE name LIKE "%2012%"

... meaning: find all downloads that have "2012" in the name. The second command is the delete command. It works. Cool.

Hey, and it also works from the command line:

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sander@R540:~/.sabnzbd/admin$ sqlite3 testje.db  "SELECT * FROM history WHERE name LIKE '%2010%' ;" | wc -l
10

sander@R540:~/.sabnzbd/admin$ sqlite3 testje.db  "DELETE FROM history WHERE name LIKE '%2010%' ;" | wc -l
0

sander@R540:~/.sabnzbd/admin$ sqlite3 testje.db  "SELECT * FROM history WHERE name LIKE '%2010%' ;" | wc -l
0

sander@R540:~/.sabnzbd/admin$

Explanation:
The first command looks up all downloads with "2010" in the name. There are 10 lines of output.
The second command deletes those downloads from the history
The third command shows that those entries are really deleted.

FYI: testje.db is a copy of SAB's history1.db

So this way you can select certain downloads (in this case: based on a word in the download), and delete them.

HTH

[dcuritois]

Oh, that's very cool sander - I'll have to give that a shot

Thanks!