There's a more Logical solution

Story: How to effectively clear your bash historyTotal Replies: 2
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dotmatrix

Jun 06, 2016
12:41 PM EDT 

rm ~/.bash_history
ln -s /dev/null ~/.bash_history
This will effectively act as a temporary history store for a given terminal or login instance's bash history. However, the history will be 'forgotten' upon exiting the terminal or login.

This trick also works with '~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel'

However, with recently-used... each login will create a new recently-used file which is deleted upon exit or new login ... I forget which.

I think that's right...
gus3

Jun 06, 2016
1:46 PM EDT 		Or, in your .bash_profile add the following line:

export HISTFILESIZE=0

This way, shell history is strictly per-process, and never saved/shared.
jdixon

Jun 06, 2016
4:44 PM EDT 		In Linux/Unix, there are usually half a dozen ways to accomplish the same task.

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