Re: Improvement to bash history browsing.

[Chet Ramey]

Kamil Neczaj wrote:

> Description:
>       I have an idea to improve bash. Every command run from bash is stored
> in the history. The user can go through commands' history by pressing up
> and down arrows. Sometimes one command is run several times, after that
> the user want to run the previous command and he press up arrow several
> times. I suggest to limit number of up arrow pressing to one even if the
> command was run several times.

Please read the descriptions of the HISTIGNORE and HISTCONTROL shell
variables in the bash documentation.

Chet
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