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Anybody know how to disable the feature in linux that keeps track of all the commands youve typed? I really want to just empty it and start over again but I figure theyll come a time when I dont want it on so I better learn everything I can about controlling this.
well, the commands are kept in ~/.bash_history, so you can just delete that to start from new. i can't see a nice way to stop it loggin permanently, but you should be able to add a line (rm ~/.bash_history) to /etc/bashrc to erase the previous login's history upon starting new shell. this should be ok, as the file doesn't get written to untioli the shell is existed. you could also create a ~/.bash_history file in each user directory owned by root, and not writable by others, so the data couldn't be saved. but i'm not sure they are really that competent a solution, they would do the trick tho
hmmm... that's a feature that's going to be on pretty much every shell... most people consider it to be insanely useful. the only thing i could think of would be to set the env variable HISTORY to zero.
in your .login, put this line:
HISTORY=0
export HISTORY
i think that will work. if you get any errors, post back here.
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