selective command history

[Suvayu Ali]

Hi,

On Friday 17 September 2010 03:52 AM, Yorvyk wrote:
>>  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.
>
>

Thanks for your response, but its not working for me. :(

> $   tail -5 ~/.bash_history
> git commit
>  ls
>  git checkout master
>  cd org
>   git status -sb

As you can see from the last four commands, its simply recording it 
_with_ the spaces. I am using bash, are you using some other shell by 
any chance?

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