Hi Simon, On 17 September 2010 05:22, Simon Andrews <simon.andrews@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 17/09/2010 00:46, suvayu ali wrote: >> My use case is, to be able to use up arrow or be able to search >> through my history with C-r for all the commands I type. But I want to >> ignore the trivial day to day use commands to be ignored when the >> history is written to the history file. If I set HISTIGNORE the >> ignored commands also disappear from the interactive command history, >> but without it my shell history file gets cluttered with all these day >> to day commands. > > Set HISTIGNORE to 'ignorespace' and prefix any commands you want to > ignore with a space. > That didn't work for me either. :( $ tail -5 ~/.bash_history ls b* ls -d */ ls -d */ whoami exit $ echo $HISTIGNORE ignorespace All the commands still show up. > Simon. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
