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Re:Tesla sues ex-Autopilot director for taking proprietary i... by josephagoss on Thursday January 26, 2017 @09:28PM (#13497256) 

   unset HISTFILE; shred ~/.bash_history; exit
You want to unset the current HISTFILE so that it doesn't become apart of ~/.bash_history when you exit.
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Re:Tesla sues ex-Autopilot director for taking proprietary i... by nitrogen on Thursday January 26, 2017 @11:09PM (#13497642)
Putting a space in front of commands prevents them from being recorded in the history file.
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Re:Tesla sues ex-Autopilot director for taking proprietary i... by josephagoss on Friday January 27, 2017 @01:38AM (#13498180)
I never knew that! This is awesome, not sure why I never picked up on this before.

Thank you.

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Re:Tesla sues ex-Autopilot director for taking proprietary i... by thewhitetulip on Friday January 27, 2017 @02:35AM (#13498328)
I tried doing this, but doesn't work on Mac
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