shawn wilson (ag4ve.us@gmail.com on 2011-04-27 18:58 -0400): > Is there a way to have a command that does not show up in history? Or > a way to pipe a string where the string doesn't show up in history? see the HISTIGNORE variable in the bash manual, and edit ~/.bashrc accordingly. Most used is something like export HISTIGNORE=" *" which will not save any command that starts with a space. Regards, Arno