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doc: HISTIGNORE recommendation
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Grraahaam committed Feb 4, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -135,3 +135,38 @@ Another option to point the CLI to your self hosted Infisical instance is to set
infisical <any-command> --domain="https://your-self-hosted-infisical.com/api"
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## History

Your terminal keeps a history with the commands you run. When you create Infisical secrets directly from your terminal, they'll stay there for a while.

For security and privacy concerns, we recommend you to configure your terminal to ignore those specific Infisical commands.

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<Tabs>
<Tab title="Unix/Linux">
<Tip>
`$HOME/.profile` is pretty common but, you could place it under `$HOME/.profile.d/infisical.sh` or any profile file run at login
</Tip>

```bash
cat <<EOF >> $HOME/.profile && source $HOME/.profile
# Ignoring specific Infisical CLI commands
DEFAULT_HISTIGNORE=$HISTIGNORE
export HISTIGNORE="*infisical secrets set*:$DEFAULT_HISTIGNORE"
EOF
```
</Tab>
<Tab title="Windows">
If you're on WSL, then you can use the Unix/Linux method.
<Tip>
Here's some [documentation](https://superuser.com/a/1658331) about how to clear the terminal history, in PowerShell and CMD
</Tip>
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