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==Remove Only Current Session Bash History==

You will sometimes come across instances where you do not want to leave a bash history of your current session.  

Example reason, you are on a clients account and you do NOT want them to see what commands you ran on their account. 

===1) Quit Bash Shell without Saving your History: Unset HISTFILE===
 unset HISTFILE && exit

===2) Quit Bash by Killing your Current Console: Kill Console===
 kill -9 $$

===3) Set your Bash Shell history to Zero(0): Set HISTSIZE 0===
 HISTSIZE=0 && exit

===4) Clear History Option: Clear History(my fav)===
 history -c && exit

===5) Delete your HISTFILE and unset HISTFILE : Quit Bash===
 rm -f $HISTFILE && unset HISTFILE && exit

==Creat an alias to Accomplish this task==

 echo "alias nohistory='history -c && exit'" >> ~/.bashrc

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