remove command history

[Evgeniy Petrov]

If I press button "up" I can see all comand which I write before.
How I can clear this command history under suse linux 8.0?

[joe durusau]

Evgeniy Petrov wrote:

> If I press button "up" I can see all comand which I write before.
> How I can clear this command history under suse linux 8.0?

What shell. You are looking at a shell feature, not an OS feature.

Speaking only for myself,

Joe Durusau

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On 2004-06-10, Evgeniy Petrov wrote:

> If I press button "up" I can see all comand which I write before.
> How I can clear this command history under suse linux 8.0?

Please don't multi-post.

This has been answered in the Linux group you posted to.


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[Evgeniy Petrov]

> > If I press button "up" I can see all comand which I write before.
> > How I can clear this command history under suse linux 8.0?

>
> What shell. You are looking at a shell feature, not an OS feature.

GNU bash, version 2.05.0(1)-release (i386-suse-linux)

Copyright 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

[Evgeniy Petrov]

> > > If I press button "up" I can see all comand which I write before.

> > > How I can clear this command history under suse linux 8.0?

> >
> > What shell. You are looking at a shell feature, not an OS feature.

>
> Since he's on Linux, I'd guess bash. That's all they seem to know about
> most of the time.
>
> Evgeniy, try reading the bash man page. Look for paragraphs on command
> history. Also notice if you have a ~/.bash_history file. That contains
> commands saved from old sessions.
>
> Trying to cover your tracks???

No. I have a problem with another administrator. He is learning unix. For
this he repeat all my comands step by step. So I think sytem will crach
soon. I can't remove his right becouse there are a lot of political
problems.

I have two files in /home/user/ directory .I guess file .bash_history is
very old for this.
But if I clear file .kshrc_history this file is restoring automatically. So
right now I havn't idea how clear command history.
11250 Jun 11 14:04 .kshrc_history

Jul 23 2003 .bash_history

[Dave Hinz]

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 15:24:44 +0400, Evgeniy Petrov <evg@mail.wurth.ru> wrote:

>
> I have two files in /home/user/ directory .I guess file .bash_history is
> very old for this.
> But if I clear file .kshrc_history this file is restoring automatically. So
> right now I havn't idea how clear command history.
> 11250 Jun 11 14:04 .kshrc_history

Brute force and ugly, but could you symbolically link it to /dev/null?

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On 2004-06-11, Evgeniy Petrov wrote:

>

>> > If I press button "up" I can see all comand which I write before.
>> > How I can clear this command history under suse linux 8.0?

>>
>> What shell. You are looking at a shell feature, not an OS feature.

>
> GNU bash, version 2.05.0(1)-release (i386-suse-linux)

In your .bashrc and/or .bash_profile file:

unset HISTFILE

Your history will then not be saved; you will only have command
history from the current session.

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