Delete impala shell history

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I face this problem: We have a shared user where we use impala-shell from the same machine for impala queries. I don't want my queries to be visible and I want to be able to clear my impala-shell history. We access impala with:

impala-shell

an any user by using the up-key can see all the queries.How can I do this?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 22 '19 at 10:10

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You can delete the history file, located in your home folder.

rm ~/.impalahistory

edited Feb 22 '19 at 10:10

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answered Feb 21 '19 at 15:13

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tk421 · Answer 2 · 2019-02-21T17:05:11.260

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In addition to @funkyjelly answer, you can also override IMPALA_HISTFILE to another location and delete it too or have individual ones per real user.

In impala_shell_config_defaults.py you have:

_histfile_from_env = os.environ.get(
    'IMPALA_HISTFILE', '~/.impalahistory')
...

edited Feb 21 '19 at 17:05

answered Feb 21 '19 at 16:59

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Delete impala shell history

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