selective command history

[suvayu ali]

Hi Simon,

On 17 September 2010 05:22, Simon Andrews <simon.andrews at bbsrc.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 17/09/2010 00:46, suvayu ali 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.
>
> Set HISTIGNORE to 'ignorespace' and prefix any commands you want to
> ignore with a space.
>

That didn't work for me either. :(

$  tail -5 ~/.bash_history
 ls b*
 ls -d */
 ls -d */
whoami
exit
$ echo $HISTIGNORE
ignorespace

All the commands still show up.

> Simon.

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