Shell Productivity Tips and Tricks

Re:Shell Productivity Tips and Tricks by rrmm on Saturday April 25, 2020 @08:22AM (#22977560)

The worst is when you expect a password prompt so you type the password and hit enter, but you mistyped the original command and you end up typing your password in plaintext onto the command line. oops.

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Re:Shell Productivity Tips and Tricks by McKayDavis on Saturday April 25, 2020 @01:36PM (#22979708)

If you're using `bash`, A quick remedy for this is:

  unset HISTFILE
  exit

This prevents `bash` from updating the `~/.bash_history` file on exit with the command you don't want memorialized. (assuming you don't also have some hook that updates your history file after every command)

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