George R Goffe wrote:
> I have noticed that some commands appear in history and some do
> not. I have isolated that to commands that have blanks before their
> name. I sometimes see this with pasted commands but this may be the
> same problem.
>
> Am I doing something wrong by any chance?
This is a feature so that a user may control what commands go into the
history and which do not. In the bash man page it says:
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.
Remove "ignorespace" from HISTCONTROL and it will save commands that
begin with a space too.
Bob
