bash history

[Peter Gueckel]

Ed Greshko wrote:

> On 04/29/2012 07:44 AM, Peter Gueckel wrote:
>> Andy Blanchard wrote:
>>
>>> What you want is:
>>>
>>>    export HISTCONTROL=erasedups
>> It looked promising, but it doesn't work. I logged out and back in twice,
>> then even completely turned off the computer and back on again, but when
>> I examine the .bash_history file, it is riddled with duplicate commands.
>>
> 
> I didn't do that much testing.....being summoned for breakfast.  But, it
> seemed to work fine for me.
> 
> I did 5 cat /etc/hosts followed by 5 ls /tmp and then repeated the cycled.
>  Logged out and Logged in and did a cat .bash_history.
> 
> The last few lines were....
> 
> vi .bash_profile
> ls /etc
> history
> ls
> cat .bash_history
> cat /etc/hosts
> ls /tmp
> 
> 
I'm thinking you have to start with an empty file. As was said in a former post, it 
doesn't work retroactively.