[Cialug] HISTIGNORE Question

Adam Hill adam at diginc.us
Wed Jun 20 19:10:55 UTC 2018


HISTIGNORE=mypassword is probably a warning sign.  But seriously, isn't
HISTCONTROL=ignorespace a pretty common setting in distros as a default?
Then any line starting with a space becomes 'private' and isn't logged to
history.

On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 1:42 PM Kyle H <khamil8686 at gmail.com> wrote:

> set HISTIGNORE=* or \*
>
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 11:39 AM Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 12:33 PM, Kyle H <khamil8686 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > what if you tried  * or \* for HISTIGNORE? my guess... does that work?
> > I'm
> > > not where i can try it
> > >
> >
> > Not sure what you mean.
> >
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