The bash shell maintains a history of the commands that you have typed in a file called .bash_history
. If you want to disable this feature, you can follow these steps:
.bashrc
file: The .bashrc
file is a configuration file that is read by the bash shell every time you start a new session. To disable the bash history, you can add the following line to the .bashrc
file:unset HISTFILE
This will prevent the bash shell from creating or updating the .bash_history
file.
.bash_history
file: If you want to completely remove the .bash_history
file and erase your command history, you can delete the file using the following command:rm ~/.bash_history
Keep in mind that this will only disable the bash history for the current user. If you want to disable the bash history for all users on the system, you will need to edit the global bash configuration file, which is typically located at /etc/bashrc
.