clean command line history

basilogics · 06-16-2005, 06:49 AM

hello,

i made a mistake when switching to su. my password is now viewable in the commandline history. is there a way to clean the commandline history?
i use suse 9.1 pro.

thx in advance.

basilogics

slackie1000 · 06-16-2005, 06:57 AM

hi there,

Quote:

Originally posted by basilogics
hello,

i made a mistake when switching to su. my password is now viewable in the commandline history. is there a way to clean the commandline history?
i use suse 9.1 pro.

thx in advance.

basilogics

try..

Code:

history -c

regards
slackie1000

basilogics · 06-16-2005, 06:59 AM

that simple!
it worked
thx.

slackie1000 · 06-16-2005, 07:05 AM

hi there,
yep...that simple...
from man bash...

Code:

  history [n]
       history -c
       history -d offset
       history -anrw [filename]
       history -p arg [arg ...]
       history -s arg [arg ...]
              With  no  options,  display  the command history list with line numbers.  Lines listed with a *
              have been modified.  An argument of n lists only the last n lines.  If the shell variable HIST-
              TIMEFORMAT  is  set  and not null, it is used as a format string for strftime(3) to display the
              time stamp associated with each displayed history  entry.   No  intervening  blank  is  printed
              between  the formatted time stamp and the history line.  If filename is supplied, it is used as
              the name of the history file; if not, the value of HISTFILE is  used.   Options,  if  supplied,
              have the following meanings:
              -c     Clear the history list by deleting all the entries.
....

man is always a good friend...

regards
slackie1000

basilogics · 06-16-2005, 07:56 AM

a good thing to remember, though

oneandoneis2 · 06-16-2005, 08:19 AM

Alternatively, open the .bash_history file in a ext editor, and just delete the one entry from it that's bothering you

basilogics · 06-16-2005, 09:27 AM

you've been a great help so far.

one more thing; apache 1.3 doesn't start on boot. i know i should put the apachectl start somewhere in /etc/rc.d/r.local/ or something like this. but i don't have a rc.local. and if i had i don't exactly know on which line to put apachectl start.

thx (again)

basilogics

geokker · 10-26-2005, 11:14 AM

I can't find the .bash_history for root - is it called something else?

maroonbaboon · 10-26-2005, 06:59 PM

Not in /root/.bash_history?

Note that 'dot' files (leading '.') do not show up in 'ls' unless you add option -a.

slackie1000 · 11-04-2005, 04:25 AM

hi there,

Quote:

Originally posted by geokker
I can't find the .bash_history for root - is it called something else?

could it be that you are using another shell? tcsh? xxsh? yysh?
if so, it is clear why .bash_history does not exist.
regards,
slackie1000