How to clear history logs of all terminal sessions

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi,

I would normally clear off the history entries from a terminal by using the following commands:

> ~/.bash_history
history -c

But this will remove the entries of that particular session only. How to prune all the entries of all login sessions for a particular user in a system?

N.B: I do not want to delete ~/.bash_history file.

2

open a session with Ctrl+Alt+F[1-9] and login as root.
mv /home/user/.bash_history /home/user/bash_history.org
or you could date it with
mv /home/user/.bash_history /home/user/bash_history.org-`date '+%l:%M:%S %p'` (lower case L)

and have the user logoff|on.
done.

HTH

3

Thank you for the tips. Hope the ~/.bash_history would be created again when I logged in to the system with the user's credentials

4

It will get re-created.