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# Clearing Tracks

## Linux

Clearing tracks on Linux.

Whenever you successfully gain access to a Linux target, all of your activity is being logged in the form of bash history. We can clear the bash history by running the following command:

```
history -c
```

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We can also clear the bash history by deleting the content of the .bash\_history file. This can be done by running the following command:

```
cat /dev/null > ~/.bash_history
```

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