On 28 April 2012 22:38, Peter Gueckel <pgueckel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
HISTIGNORE only deals with consecutive duplicates, IIRC.I read about a shell variable called HISTIGNORE that is supposed to prevent duplicate
commands from occurring in .bash_history.
I put the following line into ~/.bash_profile:
export HISTIGNORE="&"
It's not working. I still have duplicate commands galore. Why isn't is working?
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!
Regards,
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Andy
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