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title: Hide Environment Variables From Your History
description: Here’s a neat little trick I learned today; if you want to hide the value of an Environment variable from your history/logs...
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# Hide Environment Variables From Your History

 Published by [ Nathan Webster ](https://www.dae.mn/blog/author/nathan-webster) on  28 October 2022

Here’s a neat little trick I learned today; if you want to hide the value of an Environment variable from your history/logs, put a space before the export command!

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Here’s an example:

```
export NATHAN=fooecho $NATHANfoo export NATHAN=barecho $NATHANbarhistory10083  export NATHAN=foo10084  echo $NATHAN10084  echo $NATHAN
```

Particularly helpful if you are using secrets as Environment variables and you don’t want these to make it through to centralised logging platforms.

Enjoy!

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