Hi, On Friday 17 September 2010 03:52 AM, Yorvyk wrote: >> My use case is, to be able to use up arrow or be able to search >> through my history with C-r for all the commands I type. But I want to >> ignore the trivial day to day use commands to be ignored when the >> history is written to the history file. If I set HISTIGNORE the >> ignored commands also disappear from the interactive command history, >> but without it my shell history file gets cluttered with all these day >> to day commands. >> > Put a 'space' in front of the day-to-day commands and they don’t appear in the history. It’s suprising how quickly you get used to tapping the space-bar before typing certain commands. > > Thanks for your response, but its not working for me. :( > $ tail -5 ~/.bash_history > git commit > ls > git checkout master > cd org > git status -sb As you can see from the last four commands, its simply recording it _with_ the spaces. I am using bash, are you using some other shell by any chance? -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
