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makr17 on May 24, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Improving the security of your SSH private key fil...

$ export HISTFILE=/dev/null

Nux on May 24, 2013 [–]

You want:

unset HISTFILE

yew on May 24, 2013 | | [–]

Don't do that in your .bash_profile unless you run login shells on all of your terminals!

Setting HISTFILE propagates that setting to child shells - unsetting HISFILE does not.

dsl on May 24, 2013 | | [–]

Undefined = Default

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