thoughtbot/dotfiles — pull request #162 by croaky (2013-06-23 18:42:52+00:00)
Title: Turn off banner at login

When logging into a new shell, users see a banner such as:

Last login: Sun Jun 23 11:41:42 on ttys007

Adding an empty ~/.hushlogin file turns that banner off:

http://kb.iu.edu/data/acdd.html