How do I clear history of the bash logs? Also, do not log any of my users' bash logs?

Question

How do I do that? I want to clear everything as well as not log anything from now on.

Answer 1

To clear the history

history -c

To stop new bash commands being added to the history

unset HISTFILE

To stop history permanently for you

echo "unset HISTFILE" >> ~/.bash_profile

To stop history permanently for all users

echo "unset HISTFILE" >> /etc/profile

For information the history is stored in your home folder as ~/.bash_history.

Answer 2

Clear history: history -c for a single user, find /home -name .bash_history -delete for any user whose $HOME directory is in /home.

Disable history: Put unset HISTFILE in your ~/.bashrc or in the global /etc/bash.bashrc.