Bash History Logging [Solved]

[hotsauce]

What's a good command to append to your bashrc to not log the history? And what is the best command to use to use on terminals to clear history without appending your bashrc?

[Fitzcarraldo]

Try

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unset HISTFILE

for the first question, and

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$ history -c

for the second question.

Some documentation:

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$ man bash
$ man history

and
history MAN Page
An A-Z Index of the Bash command line for Linux.

[hotsauce]

Perfect. Yeah I use history -c in my shells. That first command was just what I was looking for to add to my bashrc. I suppose I could get out of this laziness I've been in and read the man pages Even after a few years of using Linux, it's easy to forget the simple things to do to solve problems. Thanks.

[hotsauce]

Just caught on to the fact we follow the Gentoo forum format, I'll be sure to post [Solved] after my posts.