Re: How to clear the command history in Red Hat Linux 8

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
Jean-David Beyer wrote:

Pandi K wrote:

How to clear the command history in Red Hat Linux 8


Wrong question. Red Hat Linux 8 does not store a command history.

Most (perhaps all) the shells do. You might read the documentation
for the shell you are using.


Well, yes. Pandi? If you have a normal account in RedHat 8, your shell is /bin/bash. You cah check it by typing "getid myusername", or lots of other commands.

If you examine the documentation for bash, you'll see that it is "history -c".

But that apparently only sets a pointer to the last when invoked. .bash_history is still there unchanged. Not so good if the purpose is security.

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