Re: bash history

On 04/29/2012 06:15 AM, Peter Gueckel wrote:
Andy Blanchard wrote:

HISTIGNORE only deals with consecutive duplicates, IIRC.

What you want is:

export HISTCONTROL=erasedups

you might also want to add ":ignorespace" to the end of that. That will
cause any command prefixed by a space to be ignored as well - very useful
for those long commands that you will only ever run once!
Thanks. I will change it.

http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2008/08/15-examples-to-master-linux-command-line-history

Seems to have some nice examples of the various environment variables.

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