Re: What motivates HISTCONTROL=ignorespace ?

2010-02-06 Thread Chet Ramey
On 2/6/10 6:38 AM, Jon Seymour wrote: > Is it to allow users who may have reason to type sensitive commands a > trivial means to suppress such commands from their command history? Yes. Not just sensitive commands, but any command for any reason. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to ler

What motivates HISTCONTROL=ignorespace ?

2010-02-06 Thread Jon Seymour
I too was unaware of the HISTCONTROL option, but now that I know what it does, I am intrigued by the rationale for HISTCONTROL=ignorespace? In other words, what motivated the inclusion of handling for this option specifically? Is it to allow users who may have reason to type sensitive commands a t