clear history from shell

[Karl Auer]

> It would be nice if there were a "Unique" switch for history so if
> a command has been used before (or maybe was executed from history 
> itself) its not added to list again, just a thought

There is such a switch - see HISTCONTROL in "man bash".

> "history -c" clears the current session's history not what's already
> in .bash_history. Thanks.

One option would be to set up a cron job that just deletes (or, if you
are really paranoid, shreds) ~/.bash_history at regular intervals. The
history is stored in memory until you exit the shell, so you will still
have the history available to you until you exit the shell.

Regards, K.

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