Turn off history on bash and sh shells

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Hello,
Is there any way, can turn off history permanently for the following shells on the RHEL 7 platform.

shells:
/bin/sh
/bin/bash

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  1. yes, you need to add the following to your ~/.bash_profile file:
set +o history
unset HISTFILE
  1. Save and close the file.
  2. Delete it existing from the shell, run:
    history -c
  3. Log out
  4. Test it.

For more info read:
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/disable-bash-shell-history-linux/

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Thanks,

This setting not working for “sh” shell …

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/bin/sh is nothing but bash shell itself on RHEL 7. So it should work. You can verify symlink with the following command:

ls -l /bin/sh
ls -l /bin/{sh,bash}

-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 964608 Oct 30 22:37 /bin/bash
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      4 Dec  5 06:53 /bin/sh -> bash

Also only v8 of Unix sh has history feature defined by HISTORY variable. So try to unset in $HOME/.profile.

unset HISTORY