HISTCONTROL date: 2015-05-17 01:30:26+00:00 categories: - Linux tags: - bash - shell
In BASH, setting HISTCONTROL lets you have your command history skip repeat entries or commands that start with a space. To have both, my .profile now contains
export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth
See http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/syntax/shellvars#histcontrol