RC Logr 20200730 113444

Thursday, 30 Jul, 2020

If you make a mistake and enter sensitive information in your zsh prompt, it is saved in history. Since you do not want that info sitting around in a plain text file, simply edit $HISTFILE to get rid of the offending line, then use fc -R to reload the history file. 😎

A couple of tips:

• zsh history is often kept in ~/.zsh_history but that path can be confirmed by doing echo $HISTFILE.
• your ~/.zsh_history might be massive, but vim can load it without trouble. Assuming you have vim, open the history file with vim ~/.zsh_history, press esc, then use shift + G to jump to the end of the file. Delete the offending line with D then save with :wq.
• if you confirm with history it will show the unneeded line still, so do the fc -R to reload the history file you just edited and saved.