On 1/11/14, 8:48 PM, Tim Friske wrote:
> Hi Chet,
>
> apparently bash does not recognize the ":" colon characters in POSIX
> character classes when assigned to the "HISTIGNORE" variable.
>
> I tried to set the "HISTIGNORE" variable directly from within a
> non-login, interactive session. But still I cannot convince bash's
> history with the following definitions:
>
> 1.) HISTIGNORE="+([[:word:]])"
This actually works fine for me, as long as extglob is set.
> 2.) HISTIGNORE="+([^[:space:]])"
As does this.
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