Re: bash history

[Lee]

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 03:38:41PM -0600, Peter Gueckel wrote:
>  I read about a shell variable called HISTIGNORE that is supposed to
> prevent duplicate 
>  commands from occurring in .bash_history.
>  
>  I put the following line into ~/.bash_profile:
>  
>  export HISTIGNORE="&"
>  
>  It's not working. I still have duplicate commands galore. Why isn't is working?
I have:
HISTIGNORE='ls:cp:mv:rmdir:mkdir:less:most:joe:cd' && export HISTIGNORE
in my .bashrc. Works afaict.

Terry