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title: Playbook for User Deleting Bash History - Cloud
description: This playbook provides systematic remediation steps to investigate incidents that indicate if someone was trying to remove the bash history \(.bash\_history\) file from a Linux server.
locale: en-US
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release: australia
product: Security Incident Response
classification: security-incident-response
topic_type: concept
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
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breadcrumb: [Flow-based Playbooks, Security Incident Response playbooks, Playbook Resources, Security Incident Response, Enterprise security case management applications, Security Operations]
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# Playbook for User Deleting Bash History - Cloud

This playbook provides systematic remediation steps to investigate incidents that indicate if someone was trying to remove the bash history \(`.bash_history`\) file from a Linux server.

**Note:** You need to mitigate this alert cautiously, as this alerts gets rarely triggered and it potentially indicates an insider threat.

-   **[Set up the User Deleting Bash History playbook](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/security-incident-response/playbook-setup-deleting-bash-history.md)**  
Use the following steps to set up the User Deleting Bash History playbook.
-   **[Use the User Deleting Bash History playbook](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/security-incident-response/playbook-using-deleting-bash-history.md)**  
Use this playbook to investigate incidents that indicate if someone was trying to remove the bash history file from a Linux server. The following steps give you a walkthrough of the actions, tasks, and subflows that are available in the User Deleting the Bash History \(`.bash_history`\) playbook.

**Parent Topic:**[Flow-based Playbooks](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/security-incident-response/playbook-flow-based.md)