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Can anyone confirm if by setting the following environmental variables under Debian Lenny, it will make previous history entries not be saved? I'm using GNU bash, version 3.2.39(1)-release.
export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth
export HISTSIZE=500
I have added them to my /etc/bash.bashrc file but I keep getting repeated commands.
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Use erasedups instead! It work for me!
export HISTCONTROL=erasedups
If you need more options separate them with:
export HISTCONTROL=ignorespace:erasedups
Andrej
Posted 2010-03-12T16:28:19.637
Reputation: 21
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To uniqely record every new command is tricky. First you need to add to
~/.profile or similar:
HISTCONTROL=erasedups
PROMPT_COMMAND='history -w'
Then you need to add to ~/.bash_logout:
history -a
history -w
Steven Penny
Posted 2010-03-12T16:28:19.637
Reputation: 7 294
Please do not post the same answer to multiple questions. If the same information really answers both questions, then one question (usually the newer one) should be closed as a duplicate of the other. You can indicate this by voting to close it as a duplicate or, if you don't have enough reputation for that, raise a flag to indicate that it's a duplicate. Otherwise tailor your answer to this question and don't just paste the same answer in multiple places.
– DavidPostill – 2018-02-04T20:25:42.593
Cross-posted at: http://serverfault.com/questions/121396/histcontrolignoreboth-not-working-debian-lenny and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2426119/histcontrolignoreboth-not-working-debian-lenny
– Paused until further notice. – 2010-03-14T23:04:18.613