On 04/28/2012 09:38 PM, Peter Gueckel wrote: > 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. -=- what made you think it would?, ie, from where do you find above variable and it's use? > I still have duplicate commands galore. -=- not surprised. > Why isn't is working? -=- wrong command. try; HISTCONTROL="ignoredupes" export HISTCONTROL wfm ;) -- peace out. tc.hago, g . *please reply "plain text" only. "html text" are deleted* **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** The installation instructions stated to install Windows 2000 or better. So I installed Linux. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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