Disable .bash_history logging in bash, Debian
Posted on October 19, 2008
I hate the .bash_history file. It never contains what I want, screws up when using multiple sessions and generally contains junk. I like to disable the .bash_history file, while still keeping the ability to push the "up"-key to scroll through earlier commands in the same session.
The way to do this is to set $HISTFILE to /dev/null. Bash will now log all its history to a nice, black hole.
This can be done at the beginning of ~/.bashrc
... HISTFILE=/dev/null ...
There. Now I wont forget.
June 10th, 2009 - 09:40
Thank you – that helped me enabling the .bash_history again – I had a HISTFILE= entry in .bashrc. Appended ~/.bash_history and tada – working again.
bw, SteveO