selective command history
Andy Blanchard
zocalo at gmail.com
Fri Sep 17 19:45:24 UTC 2010
Can you boil the commands that you don't want included in the history
file to a series of regular expressions such as the following:
^cd
^ls
^rm
If so, you can create a list of these regular expressions in a file,
then use the ~/.bash_logout script to clean up the history:
# clean up the history list (the cut part strips of history's line numbers)
history | cut -b8- | egrep -v -f ~/.command_list > ~/history.tmp
# flush the current history
history -c
# load the cleaned-up history ready to be written out on exit
history -r ~/history.tmp
# remove the temporary file
rm -f ~/history.tmp
You might also want to remove the comments and combine some of the
above commands onto one line with the ";" separator to avoid some
extra history clutter.
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Andy
The only person to have all his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe
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