2009/2/9 Rick Welykochy <r...@praxis.com.au>: > Owen Townend wrote: >> >> 2009/2/9 Amos Shapira <amos.shap...@gmail.com>: >> [snip] >>> >>> And one last thing, related to security - if you type a sensitive >>> string on the command line and get it into your history, use "history >>> -d" to delete this line. >>> >> >> There is an easier way around this. Most shells, bash included will >> exclude a line from the history if you begin it with a space. > > My bash doesn't do this. It includes the line in the history :( > > but > > HISTSIZE=2000 > SHELLOPTS=braceexpand:emacs:hashall:histexpand:history:interactive-comments:monitor > > might have an effect on this behaviour.
Ah, my default bashrc has HISTCONTROL set. ~$ echo $HISTCONTROL ignoreboth This sets ignorespace and ignoredups, see the man page for details. cheers, Owen. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
