Re: Command history

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com>]

shawn wilson wrote:

> Is there a way to have a command that does not show up in history? Or a
> way to pipe a string where the string doesn't show up in history?
> 
> Ie, I set some passwords with:
> echo "some string and stuff" ¦ sha512sum
> (Probably with cut and awk and other such things)
> 
> And I'd like a way for my system to not store my password scheme. I'd
> prefer something better than editing my history file.

In bash, If I prepend the command with a space character, it does not show 
up in the ~/.bash_history file.

hth
raju
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