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DM-StegDM-StegPosted Dec 2, 2011 20:48 UTC (Fri) by jackb (subscriber, #41909)In reply to: DM-Steg by giraffedata Parent article: DM-Steg
Or you could just use "ln -s /dev/null ~/.bash_history"
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DM-Steg Posted Dec 2, 2011 21:48 UTC (Fri) by gmaxwell (subscriber, #30048) [Link]
Thats killing a fly with a sledgehammer. Shell history is helpful.
Also, export HISTFILE=/dev/null is probably a more proper way. :)
DM-Steg Posted Dec 3, 2011 3:35 UTC (Sat) by jackb (subscriber, #41909) [Link]
Now that you mention it I do seem to have a tendency to apply sledgehammer types of solutions to computer problems.
Besides using a symlink to /dev/null for .bash_history I once built a framework for generating initramfs images that avoided the difficulties of static linking all pretenses of elegance or efficiency by just throwing the entire contents of /etc /bin /lib* and /sbin into a giant cpio file.
Then there was the time that I was annoyed by automatic vt console blanking so I found the line in the kernel that stores the default timeout value and patched it to 0 (disabled)...
DM-Steg Posted Dec 5, 2011 14:07 UTC (Mon) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106) [Link]
Seems like a waste. Just unset HISTCONTROL and run history -c. From there you get history but it won't be written anywhere (and you don't waste cycles trying to write to /dev/null later).
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