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Just annotations of little "how to's", so I know I can find how to do something I've already done when I need to do it again, in case I don't remember anymore, which is not unlikely. Hopefully they can be useful to others, but I can't guarantee that it will work, or that it won't even make things worse.
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Ignoring lines starting with space, and other patterns in bash_history

Posted 08-25-2013 at 11:18 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 08-25-2013 at 11:22 PM by the dsc
It may be a little bit unsafe to have "rm something" commands in your bash history, if you also have the history easily accessible through up and down keys.

The following line will make bash history ignore "rm" and "shutdown":

Code:
export HISTIGNORE="&:rm *:shutdown *"
I don't know the syntax, but it works.

Some people have add there an expression to make bash's history ignore any line starting with...
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