On 29 April 2012 00:44, Peter Gueckel
<pgueckel@gmail.com> wrote:
It looked promising, but it doesn't work. I logged out and back in twice, then even
completely turned off the computer and back on again, but when I examine the
.bash_history file, it is riddled with duplicate commands.
It works, but not retrospectively. If you try running one of the duplicated commands, it will strip out all of the duplicate entries then. You'll also need to run "history -w" to update the history file, otherwise it won't get updated until you exit the shell.