{"id":161,"date":"2008-09-01T08:42:18","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T16:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.outflux.net\/blog\/?p=161"},"modified":"2008-09-01T08:42:18","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T16:42:18","slug":"bash-trivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/01\/bash-trivia\/","title":{"rendered":"bash trivia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been playing too many puzzle games lately.  This trivia question just popped into my head:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhat command will never appear in a .bash_history file?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately, I seem to have disproven the answer I originally had.  I wonder if there are others?  My original answer was going to be &#8220;unset HISTFILE&#8221;, but I can make it show up in my .bash_history file:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre><code>unset HISTFILE\r\nexport HISTFILE=\/home\/kees\/.bash_history<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style='text-align:left'>&copy; 2008, <a href=\"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/\">Kees Cook<\/a>. This work is licensed under a <a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License<\/a>.<br \/><a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"CC BY-SA 4.0\" style=\"border-width:0\" src=\"https:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-sa\/4.0\/88x31.png\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been playing too many puzzle games lately. This trivia question just popped into my head: What command will never appear in a .bash_history file? Unfortunately, I seem to have disproven the answer I originally had. I wonder if there are others? My original answer was going to be &#8220;unset HISTFILE&#8221;, but I can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}