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Using Bash's History Effectively. The HISTIGNORE environment variable is particularly useful, allowing you to suppress certain commands by specifying a pattern. This article has a tip for causing a command to be omitted from the history if you prefix it with a space.

Posted 25th February 2010 at 12:21 pm

Tagged bash, commandline

5 comments

I have the following in .inputrc

"\e[A": history-search-backward
"\e[B": history-search-forward

This allows me to type the start of a command and then hit up-arrow to autocomplete from history.

Googling indicates it's discussed at http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031 026174236860

Mark Fowler - 25th February 2010 12:49 - #
HISTCONTROL=ignorespace will also omit space-prefixed commands from the history. I use HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth to suppress duplicates too.

Of course HISTIGNORE is strictly more powerful. Maybe I should try it: interesting.

Robin Houston - 25th February 2010 13:03 - #
At last! Someone who unedrstnads! Thanks for posting!

Meadow - 8th October 2011 15:44 - #
This does look promising. I'll keep coimng back for more.

Caiya - 10th October 2011 05:56 - #
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bottes ugg - 28th October 2011 02:53 - #

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