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( Tutorial ) How to delete Terminal History + PICS (Linux) - Anonymous.7654 - Jul 23, 2011

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Tutorial how to Delete Terminal History / Author Anonymous.7654


Why i created this Tutorial?


Most peoples who using Linux know this method,but i want help Linux Begginers,so i want create Little Tutorial about this.


So how to delete Terminal history?


Part I


First open Terminal.Now type "sudo gedit ~/.bash_history" you see many commads in TEXT Docoment,so detele all text and save,now you deleted Terminal History


Tutorial " Part I " Dont work? Read this


Part II


Come to your Home Folder,click "View" and click "Show Hidden Files"


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Next


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Now find file " .bash_history " And Open with Text Editor and delete all commands inside,and click save.Now you can close


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Now you deleted all Terminal History


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Thanks for reading this Tutorial

Anonymous.7654



* - Eminent - Jul 23, 2011

Short, simple, and sweet. Nice guide; this is bound to help a couple members.

* - Amzo - Jul 23, 2011

Code
rm -rf ~/.bash_history

I just summed up your entire post

* - Anonymous.7654 - Jul 23, 2011

(Jul 23, 2011 11:38 AM)Eminent Wrote:  Short, simple, and sweet. Nice guide; this is bound to help a couple members.

Thanks for the replie Eminent.

* - nix-root - Jul 23, 2011

(Jul 23, 2011 11:39 AM)Amzo Wrote:  
Code
rm -rf ~/.bash_history

I just summed up your entire post

We could also do this for the lulz
PHP Code

<?php 
srm -vz ~/.bash_history 


* - Amzo - Jul 23, 2011

(Jul 23, 2011 11:53 AM)nix-root Wrote:  We could also do this for the lulz
PHP Code

<?php 
srm -vz ~/.bash_history 

Or we could recursively ../../../ to root with

PHP Code

<?php 
srm -rv ~/.*