Sunday, September 19, 2010

Skip Linux History

Have you ever felt... you want to quit your bash session without saving your history? I am not sure for what good reason, but yes there are ways -

$ kill -9 $$

Here, $$ is the pid of the current bash instance.
Or,

$unset SAVEFILE;unset HISTFILE;

This way you can skipfast from being you session recorded in Bash History!!

PS. But I have usually seen this behavior specially amongst Freshers, trying to hide their mistakes out of panic, which is wrong. You should NOT hide it, rather report them actively. Error is inevitable in every sphere of human activity. Just we need to be sure about what we do and a bit careful while doing the same, that's it !!

Enjoy!
DK

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