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Clearing Command Line History

Oh dear, you've made a mistake on a clients server and want to hide the evidence...

There's a few options here:

1. Remove the command from bash history using the history -d command:

history -d LINE-NUMBER

The downside of this, is that the command run to delete the history will be included in the bash history, this brings us on to the sneakier method.

2.