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1. Hi !

   The sintax is wrong, it shoud say: ln -sf /dev/null ~/.bash_history or else you would be pointing /dev/null to bash_history

   great site !!!

2. Thanks for the heads up!

3. 1) Another option is link ~/.bash_history to /dev/null:
   ln -sf /dev/null ~/.bash_history

   2) The sintax is wrong, it shoud say:
   ln -sf /dev/null ~/.bash_history

   both these look identical to me!
   tell u what tho, it is syntax and NOT sintax ;)

4. history -c

   1. u rock man…………….

      1. Its great yaar. command working cool.

   2. history -c works! Thanks

      1. thank’s man

   3. lol and it’s that easy… Nice one.

5. So simple!

6. ln -sf /dev/null ~/.bash_history
   It is also good
   but why take long, When there is already shortcut
   history -c
   Best Command

7. Simply use bellow command to clear history

   >history -c

8. The idea behind clearing history is that nobody know it is being cleared. This is the command that does it
   ——
   history -d $((HISTCMD-1)) && history -c
   ——

9. great yaar its too much good & easier
   >history -c

10. Hello All,

    I am using Putty Interface to connect to Linux server in windows machine. I want to de-activate UP Down arrow key or remove the history stored in these up down arrow key. Is it possible?

    Note : I don’t want to remove the entire history stored in ~./bash_history

    Regards,
    Prashanth D

11. history -c command delete history on temporary basis not permanently after reboot deleted history comes back

12. ok guys had a go too

    history -c knocks all out but as Raj says it comes back after reboot
    to make it stick you need to run history -w afterwards

    so :

    to remove all

    history -c then history -w

    to remove one line same principle

    history -d 345 then history -w

13. or use “history -cw”

14. DO NOT enter
    >~/.bash_history
    It will re-run all the commands in the history, which is extremely dangerous!!

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