Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 16:52:55 -0400 From: "'Anubhav A.'" <parv@pair.com> To: sac <sac@inf.in> Cc: f-q <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to disable command prompt history? Message-ID: <20070602205255.GA2169@holestein.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <e14997e00706021056h2c94e1c6je3e57acc33841066@mail.gmail.com> References: <2cd0a0da0706020638g48b7ac7fn946c6e3caddc0663@mail.gmail.com> <466199E5.3040005@vindaloo.com> <e14997e00706021056h2c94e1c6je3e57acc33841066@mail.gmail.com>
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in message <e14997e00706021056h2c94e1c6je3e57acc33841066@mail.gmail.com>, wrote sac thusly... > > > VeeJay wrote: > > > > > > Could someone would like to describe that how we can disable > > > to show last executed commands by pressing Up Arrow? ... > By default most of the shells like bash, zsh, ksh have history > option. But you can avoid writing the history of the current > session to the history file by unsetting the HISTFILE environment > variable. So next time when you login the history of the > previous session will not be shown. Perhaps so, but to me it seems that OP was asking to turn off the history recall in the current session itself. In bash & zsh, setting HISTSIZE may be of some value. - Parv --
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