Re: [SLUG] de-duping history file, will I break anything

2003-10-06 Thread Broun, Bevan
I dont think it quite does what you want but I have export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups in my bashrc. There are some other HIST* environment variables that you might like too. BB on Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:58:01AM +, Voytek Eymont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > when I try to look up 'what was that

Re: [SLUG] de-duping history file, will I break anything

2003-10-05 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Voytek Eymont wrote: >when I try to look up 'what was that command I used last time' I get heaps >of duplicates, I was planning on sorting then deduping the .history file > >can I just dedupe .bash_history with uniq, will I break anything if if I do? >or, is there some

[SLUG] de-duping history file, will I break anything

2003-10-05 Thread Voytek Eymont
when I try to look up 'what was that command I used last time' I get heaps of duplicates, I was planning on sorting then deduping the .history file can I just dedupe .bash_history with uniq, will I break anything if if I do? or, is there some way not to have multiple same entries in history stack