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[vijay shanker]

Hi;

Yes it has the behavior i wanted.

Thanks for your help; patience in particular. :)

Regards,
Vijay Shanker Dubey



On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Michael Welle <mwe012008 at gmx.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> vijay shanker <vijay.shad at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi Michael;
> >
> > Open a shell and invoke 'echo $HISCONTROL'. What is the result?
> >
> > Result :
> > ignoreboth
> >
> > Type 'export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups' in your shell, then invoke a few
> > 'ls' and then 'history'. Does the list show only one ls or several?
> >
> > Result:
> > Only shows one "ls" in the history.
> >
> > :)
> >
> > I think this is what i wanted to do; and the problem with these lines
> fine ;)
>
> > in
> > ~/.bashrc
> >
> > # don't put duplicate lines in the history. See bash(1) for more options
> > # don't overwrite GNU Midnight Commander's setting of `ignorespace'.
> > export HISTCONTROL=$HISTCONTROL${HISTCONTROL+,}ignoredups
>                                                ^
> Note that list entries have to be separated by colon, not by comma.
>
>
> > # ... or force ignoredups and ignorespace
> > export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth
> >
> > One more thing; after i exported the value as you suggested; my history
> list
> > is as below
> >
> >    62  ls
> >    63  vi
> >    64  ls
> >    65  history
> >
> > It is clearly showing two entries for ls; but these line suggests some
> thing
> > else
> >
> > vijay at vijay-laptop:~$ echo $HISTCONTROL
> > ignoredups
> > vijay at vijay-laptop:~$
> >
> > Complex thing to understand
> OK, I'd misunderstood your usecase, sorry. Please exchange 'ignoredups'
> with 'erasedups', that should do what you want. ignoredups take notice
> only of the previous history entry, while erasedups takes notice of the
> whole list.
>
> Regards
> hmw
>
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