Delete terminal history in Linux

Question

When you use the up key in a Linux terminal  you can use previous commands again  Great feature  However  I started logging mysql into mysql with the sensitive details in the command   How can I delete that history

User · Accepted Answer

You can clear your bash history like this   history -cw

User · Answer

If you use bash  then the terminal history is saved in a file called  bash history  Delete it  and history will be gone   However  for MySQL the better approach is not to enter the password in the command line  If you just specify the -p option  without a value  then you will be prompted for the password and it won t be logged   Another option  if you don t want to enter your password every time  is to store it in a my cnf file  Create a file named    my cnf with something like    client  user    lt username gt  password    lt password gt    Make sure to change the file permissions so that only you can read the file   Of course  this way your password is still saved in a plaintext file in your home directory  just like it was previously saved in  bash history

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