bash-history.md

How to manage command history in the terminal

Whether it's confidential client data or passwords, there are times when you may not want some commands saved in the history.

Excluding a single command from history

To prevent a command from being recorded in the history, you can add a space before the command. For example, if you type a space at the beginning of the command, it will not be saved in the history file.

Clear History

Remove recent commands from the session history by running the following:

history -c

Disable History

If you want to turn off the command history temporarily, you can unset the HISTFILE variable using the command:

unset HISTFILE