How to avoid saving current shell session history

How to avoid saving current shell session history

Answer:

It might be happened to your before that you don't want to save the current shell session history, but you don't want to clear all the history by executing "history -c", you can use the following method.

# unset HISTFILE

Logout and type history and you will see last session history was not saved.

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