On 17 September 2010 12:45, Andy Blanchard <zocalo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Can you boil the commands that you don't want included in the history > file to a series of regular expressions such as the following: > > ^cd > ^ls > ^rm > > If so, you can create a list of these regular expressions in a file, > then use the ~/.bash_logout script to clean up the history: > This is an excellent idea! I'll give this a shot. Coming up with the proper regex shouldn't be too difficult. > # clean up the history list (the cut part strips of history's line numbers) > history | cut -b8- | egrep -v -f ~/.command_list > ~/history.tmp > # flush the current history > history -c > # load the cleaned-up history ready to be written out on exit > history -r ~/history.tmp > # remove the temporary file > rm -f ~/history.tmp > > You might also want to remove the comments and combine some of the > above commands onto one line with the ";" separator to avoid some > extra history clutter. > Thanks a lot Andy. Much appreciated. :) > -- > Andy > -- 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
