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Re: [Help-bash] counterpart of HISTIGNORE/HISTCONROL but only for saving
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Dave Rutherford |
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Re: [Help-bash] counterpart of HISTIGNORE/HISTCONROL but only for saving to .bash_history |
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Wed, 17 Jun 2015 08:20:29 -0400 |
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 7:53 AM, <address@hidden> wrote:
> is it possible to prevent bash from saving an command to the history file
but still keeping it in the in-memory history of the current session?
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> this would be very useful if you need to run an "dangerous" command (e.g.
mkfs) multiple times in your current session but dont want it in your
history of any other session.
Set HISTCONTROL=ignorespace (or ignoreboth) and start your command with a
space.