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Re: To escape saving double commands in shell command history.



On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 05:54:27AM GMT, Sthu Deus wrote:
> Good time of the day.

G'day.

> I try to escaping saving double commands in shell command history.

The subject is somewhat confusing - escaping in regards to shell usually
means something else :^)

> env shows among other things:
> 
> SHELL=/bin/bash

If bash is your login shell this is redundant.

> HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth

Have you put the second line into your .bashrc file?

> as I understand, it should be enough to cease saving the already
> had commands - but it is not so - the commands are saved still. What
> can be wrong or should be specified more?

This is enough as it is a shorthand for ignoredups and ingorespace so
you must be doing something wrong here ;^)

Regards,
-- 
Raf


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