Hi...

i have one doubt pls...

1)can we clear the command line history in UNIX for a paricular login(scadm/root)if so how?.
2) can we see the time at which command executed.

history is showing like :

100 display
101 lock
102 exit

I think it depends on your shell
e.g. for bash you can clear history by truncating ~/.bash_history file

how in ksh

In ksh:
will empty the command history.

if u use bash then

use the following command

$ history -c

tcsh supports this. ksh on most systems does not. ksh on AIX does support the timestamp. There maybe others though. This is really only there for convenience and should not be used as an absolute audit trail.

Hi

Thanks for all your replies , Even you can edit ( vi ) the ".sh_history" file and remove the lines which you don't want to be shown when the $history command is issued , But if you Observe when using history command it shows something like this.

213 df -g /
214 ls
215 lscfg

if you edit the ".sh_history" file and delete few lines of commands which are executed previously, when you issue the history command those commands issued are not shown because we edited the file and deleted them. But that command reference line number ( like 213 and whatever ) are shown, How to remove these line numbers also " instead of truncating " the whole file...?

Thanks & Regards
Rajesh.