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Re: .bash_history duplicates



On Wednesday 2008 November 26 16:28, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> I've been going thru a number of bash related web sites looking for the
> way to eliminate duplicates in ~/.bash_history. So far I've turned up

I use:
export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups:erasedups

My .bash_history doesn't have any adjacent duplicates.  Not sure why erasedups 
doesn't seem to be working.

> awk '!x[$0]++' .bash_history > .bash.tmp && mv -f .bash.tmp .bash_history

This wouldn't change the way bash writes the file, but it should eliminate all 
duplicates, adjacent or not.
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