macos - How can I disable Bash sessions in OS X El Capitan

Question

A seemingly new feature in OS X El Capitan (10.11 Beta) is Bash sessions (Terminal sessions). I now have a ~/.bash_sessions directory with history files, and my HISTFILE and HISTIGNORE envars are being overridden. How can I disable all of this functionality?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32418438/how-can-i-disable-bash-sessions-in-os-x-el-capitan

Answer 1

If you startup a new Bash session manually (i.e. bash -xl), you can see what is run on login.

You'll see the following line in the output:

....
+++ '[' '!' -e /Users/username/.bash_sessions_disable ']'

You can create a .bash_sessions_disable file in your home directory to disable this functionality.