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How to clear Bash shell history when you log out of the command-line

On some machines I prefer to not leave a log of everything I typed on the command-line. So, I remove the logs and clear the history.
To accomplish this you have to add the lines below to ~/.bash_logout:

history -c
rm -f ~/.bash_history
rm -f ~/.history