To clear history Bash in Linux

Posted on 16 May 2018 by Linux

If you want to clear the history of commands executed on our server, we can do this in a very fast way.
The following command will remove the story so that bash.

cat /dev/null > ~/.bash_history && history -c && exit

1	cat /dev/null > ~/.bash_history && history -c && exit

What do these commands?

Komenda 'cat’ empties file .bash_history currently logged in user.
Command “history -c” clean the history for the current user session.
Command “exit” the current session ends.