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- Subject: Re: [SLUG] Re: useful bash tricks thread
- From: Owen Townend <owen.townend@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 16:43:16 +1100
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2009/2/9 Rick Welykochy <rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Owen Townend wrote:
>>
>> 2009/2/9 Amos Shapira <amos.shapira@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> [snip]
>>>
>>> And one last thing, related to security - if you type a sensitive
>>> string on the command line and get it into your history, use "history
>>> -d" to delete this line.
>>>
>>
>> There is an easier way around this. Most shells, bash included will
>> exclude a line from the history if you begin it with a space.
>
> My bash doesn't do this. It includes the line in the history :(
>
> but
>
> HISTSIZE=2000
> SHELLOPTS=braceexpand:emacs:hashall:histexpand:history:interactive-comments:monitor
>
> might have an effect on this behaviour.
Ah, my default bashrc has HISTCONTROL set.
~$ echo $HISTCONTROL
ignoreboth
This sets ignorespace and ignoredups, see the man page for details.
cheers,
Owen.
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