- To: Owen Townend <owen.townend@xxxxxxxxx>, slug <slug@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [SLUG] useful bash tricks thread
- From: Amos Shapira <amos.shapira@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 18:41:57 +1100
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Yes but what if you (or someone else sharing the root account) got it
into history by accident?
(apologies for top posting, limitations of client)
On 2/9/09, Owen Townend <owen.townend@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2009/2/9 Amos Shapira <amos.shapira@xxxxxxxxx>:
> [snip]
>>
>> And one last thing, related to security - if you type a sensitive
>> string on the command line and get it into your history, use "history
>> -d" to delete this line.
>>
>
> There is an easier way around this. Most shells, bash included will
> exclude a line from the history if you begin it with a space.
>
> cheers,
> Owen.
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