How to clean .sh_history

[Bruno Vilardo]

Hello All,

How do i clean up .sh_history file ?

TIA

Bruno

[Joris Denayer]

Bruno,

As this is a regular file, I do not see big problems to clear this file with the normal commands as rm, or > or ...

but

What do you really want to accomplish ?
Why do you want to clear your historyfile ?

Maybe this can help us to give you an answer for your problem.

Joris

[Bruno Vilardo]

I want to empty this file because i dont want other users to see the commands that are logged into this file.
I want to leave it there but i want to empty it.

If i use rm , i am going to delete this file.
is it going to be created again ?

Thanks a lot


Bruno

[Hein van den Heuvel]

Like Joris said. Just blow it away with with for example:
echo "none of your business" > .sh_history

or vi

or rm and touch

or rm, issue a command and exit


Hein.

[Mobeen_1 · Accepted solution]

Bruno,
If you don't want to live any evidence :)), just use any of the means like

Edit the file and delete the lines/commands in there and save it.

Create a new file with the same name

rgds
Mobeen

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi Bruno,

in case it is getting too big, you may also rename it and when the last one using it exits, delete or zip it. Any first new login will create a new one.

greetings,

Michael

[Nicolas Dumeige]

If you're using ksh, you can own you own history file :

HISTFILE=~/.hist$$

You can also automaticaly delete the file when logging of with the trap function and ^D for instance.