selective command history

[Aaron Konstam]

On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 13:22 +0100, Simon Andrews wrote:
> On 17/09/2010 00:46, suvayu ali wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Set HISTIGNORE to 'ignorespace' and prefix any commands you want to 
> ignore with a space.
> 
> Simon.
> 
> 

That does not work for me in bash

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