On 5/10/05, Carl Lowenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/10/05, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 09:47:51AM -0700, Ralph Shumaker wrote:
> > > Comman history (rh9) shows every command where I hit return, even if I
> > > just arrowed up to the previous command.
> > >
> > > Is there a way to get it to automatically throw out previous lines of
> > > exact matches? If I use "eject whatever" a lot, I don't care about any
> > > instance of that prior to the most recent one. I'll scroll up to that
> > > one and hit enter. I don't care much for scrolling through 47 of them
> > > to find something obscure that may even have been scrolled out because
> > > of all the repeat commands.
> > >
> >
> > Pipe it to tail?
>
> I think you answered the wrong question. The real answer can be found
> in $ man bash
>
> HISTCONTROL
> If set to a value of ignorespace, lines which begin with a space
> character are not entered on the history list. If set to a
> value of ignoredups, lines matching the last history line are
> not entered. A value of ignoreboth combines the two options.
>
There is also HISTIGNORE which lets you set up a list of commands that
will not be added to the history list. Its explanation is not
entirely clear to me, but it looks like something to experiment with.
carl
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