On: I Am Releasing Ten Million Passwords

[charlespwd]

For the lazy:

  grep -i <password> 10-million-combos.txt

[me_bx → charlespwd]

for the paranoïd lazy

    export HISTCONTROL=ignorespace
     grep -i <password> 10-million-combos.txt

(type a space before the command for it not to be logged in the history)

[pavel_lishin → me_bx]

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean the eyes above your ï aren't watching. Although, it might mean you're delusional.

[_nodg → charlespwd]

And then history -c

[vacri → _nodg]

... which will clear your entire history, which you probably don't want.

I don't know a shorter way, but to delete one line from history, do 'history', which shows the line numbers, then 'history -d LINE_NUM'.

Or, in bash, prepend the command with a space and it won't go into history.

[akerl_ → vacri]

Open new terminal -> unset HISTFILE -> do your greping -> close terminal

[fletchowns → _nodg]

Unless somebody did a ps while your grep was running...

Don't put sensitive stuff in CLI args!

[loqi → fletchowns]

Good point, how about

    grep -f - 10-million-combos.txt
    <password>
    ^D^D

[brianshaler → _nodg]

Depending on your system and configuration, couldn't you prepend a space to the command to prevent it from being saved into your history?

edit: Looks like vacri mentioned this in a peer comment an hour ago. Whoops!

[nmjohn → brianshaler]

That works if you are using bash, but if you are, for example, using zsh, you would first have to run "setopt histignorespace" which would enable hiding lines prepended with a space in the history (it's off by default).

[tarblog → charlespwd]

For the lazier, -i means case insensitive.