On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 13:22 +0100, Simon Andrews wrote: > On 17/09/2010 00:46, suvayu ali wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I wanted to have different command history for my interactive bash > > session and the history that is written in my bash_history file. Does > > anyone have any idea how to achieve that? > > > > 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. > > Simon. > > That does not work for me in bash -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- 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