selective command history

[Yorvyk]

On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:46:08 -0700
suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi

> 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.
> 
Put a 'space' in front of the day-to-day commands and they don’t appear in the history.  It’s suprising how quickly you get used to tapping the space-bar before typing certain commands.


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