elementary / elementary/settings-security-privacy

Terminal command history not cleared by "Clear history"

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Description

### What Happened?

History was turned off and history cleared but is was noticed that the `.bash_rc` file was not cleared and was still updated with new commands.

### Steps to Reproduce

1. Turn history off and clear history
2. Open `.bash_rc` in Code - note still contains commands
3. Enter some terminal commands and close Terminal
4. Note commands are appended

### Expected Behavior

Not sure it can be achieved but for consistency every elementary app's history should honor the Privacy settings. The Clear History action could empty the user's `bash_history` file at least. It would be up to Terminal to stop adding to the history I guess.

### OS Version

7.x (Horus)

### Software Version

Latest release (I have run all updates)

### Log Output

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### Hardware Info

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