selective command history

[suvayu ali]

On 17 September 2010 12:45, Andy Blanchard <zocalo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
>

This is an excellent idea! I'll give this a shot. Coming up with the
proper regex shouldn't be too difficult.

>   # 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.
>

Thanks a lot Andy. Much appreciated. :)

> --
> Andy
>

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Suvayu

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