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Re: command not put into history if it starts with space
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DennisW |
Subject: |
Re: command not put into history if it starts with space |
Date: |
Fri, 5 Feb 2010 23:03:26 -0800 (PST) |
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On Feb 5, 4:07 am, Paul Stansell <paulstans...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
> Machine: i386
> OS: linux-gnu
> Compiler: gcc
> Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i386'
> -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i386-redhat-linux-gnu'
> -DCONF_VENDOR='redhat' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale'
> -DPACKAGE='bash' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I./include
> -I./lib -D_GNU_SOURCE -DRECYCLES_PIDS -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
> -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
> -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32
> -march=i686 -mtune=atom -fasynchronous-unwind-tables
> uname output: Linux ram.opd.local 2.6.31.12-174.2.3.fc12.i686 #1 SMP
> Mon Jan 18 20:22:46 UTC 2010 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
> Machine Type: i386-redhat-linux-gnu
>
> Bash Version: 4.0
> Patch Level: 35
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
>
> When using the bash shell in an xterm or rxvt terminals at least,
> commands executed which start with a space, eg " ls" are not added to
> the command line history and so are not accessible by ctrl-p.
>
> Repeat-By:
>
> Type any command prefixed by one or more spaces. Press return. Press
> Ctrl-p or type "history | tail". Observe that last command starting
> with space is not in present in the command history.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul Stansell
>From the Bash man page:
HISTCONTROL
A colon-separated list of values controlling how commands
are
saved on the history list. If the list of values
includes
ignorespace, lines which begin with a space character are
not
saved in the history list.
- Re: command not put into history if it starts with space,
DennisW <=