====== History command ====== by default returns an history of latest command ran on this login\\ it is ~the latest "HISTSIZE" commands. it can differ with the options of HISTCONTROL (for example ignoredups which ignore duplicates) ===== remove the number ===== history | cut -d ' ' -f 4- depending on the setup you might change 4 by 5/6 ... Reference: https://www.poftut.com/linux-history-command-without-line-numbers/ ===== Avoid registering a command ===== When you pass some arguments like passwords, you can skip the registration of the command by adding a space before the command command -pass XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX