Re: .bash_history

[Michael Merten <ironfoot@popaccount.com>]

On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 09:23:12AM -0400, Michael E. Touloumtzis wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 02:05:27PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote:
> > ... Is there a way that if the last 15  commands were ls preceded
> > by 10 mutts amd preceded by three tops, then the uparrow would
> > first show ls, then mutt and then top?
> 
> man bash
> export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups
> 

Thanks for that one!  Now I'm wondering why that wouldn't be the default
case...

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