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25th February 2010 - Link Blog

Using Bash's History Effectively. The HISTIGNORE environment variable is particularly useful, allowing you to suppress certain commands by specifying a pattern. This article has a tip for causing a command to be omitted from the history if you prefix it with a space.

Posted 25th February 2010 at 12:21 pm

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