How to remove the “Last login..” message from the shell

Dec 26, 2022

Learn how to remove the annoying 'Last login...' message that shows when you open your shell by creating a .hushlogin file, on both macOS and Linux.

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My shell had this line every time I opened it:

Before

Useless information for me.

And I wanted to remove it.

I ran this command to remove the “last login: ….” information:

touch ~/.hushlogin

Done!

After

Works in macOS and Linux.

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