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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Emptying the history Post 302765839 by SkySmart on Sunday 3rd of February 2013 03:19:32 PM
Old 02-03-2013
Emptying the history

is there any other way for someone to see the history of my commands after i've nulled the .bash_history file?

i'm curious. i usually do this each time i want to prevent spies:

Code:
cat /dev/null > .bash_history

i work in an environment where multiple people have root access. meaning, we can all "sudo -sE or sudo su - root".

OS:linux/sunos/hpux
 

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  NAME
      csp_helper - A collection of caspar helper scripts

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