Re: Bug on history control, don't erase no dups

[Chet Ramey]

B wrote:

> HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth:erasedups
> HISTFILE=/path/to/my/.bash_history
> HISTFILESIZE=4096
> HISTSIZE=4096
>
> Part of my history is, righ now:
>
>   522  cd /var/tmp/; touch z
>   523  cd /var/tmp/; touch z
>   524  ll
>   525  ssh zabu
>   526  ssh ximi
>   527  ls
>   528  ssh zabu
>   529  ssh ximi
>   530  gprolog
>   531  GLOBALZS=100000
>   532  gprolog --q="[test]"
>   533  gprolog --q "[test]"
>   534  gprolog --q "[tp]"
>   535  ssh ximi
>
> As you see, there are several repeated lines. Many of them are commands I use
> constantly. I started with a clean history. But even if not, the duplicates
> should have been erased, as I understood from the manual page?

I can't reproduce this behavior.  It's possible that you can still get
duplicated lines if you are in the habit of using history -n or
history -r, but I can't duplicate it using straight command input from
the keyboard.

Chet

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