> On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 10:09:38AM +0000, Dimitar DIMITROV wrote: > > The extended glob pattern @(?|??|???|????)*([[:space:]]):*([[:space:]]) > > is not respected when used for the HISTIGNORE environment variable: > > > > export HISTIGNORE='@(?|??|???|????)*([[:space:]]):*([[:space:]])' > > This issue came up in IRC. I was able to duplicate the problem with a > much simpler case. > > This works as expected: > > imadev:~$ shopt -s extglob > imadev:~$ HISTIGNORE='a*( )' > imadev:~$ a <-- I typed two spaces at the end > bash: a: command not found > imadev:~$ history | tail -3 > 1273 shopt -s extglob > 1274 HISTIGNORE='a*( )' > 1275 history | tail -3 > > This fails: > > imadev:~$ HISTIGNORE='a*([[:space:]])' > imadev:~$ a <-- again, I typed two spaces at the end > bash: a: command not found > imadev:~$ history | tail -3 > 1276 HISTIGNORE='a*([[:space:]])' > 1277 a > 1278 history | tail -3 > > Background: apparently he is in the habit of typing "curl" or "curl " a > lot, and wants them not to appear in his history. So he was trying to > set HISTIGNORE='@(wget|curl)*([[:space:]])' and it was not working as > expected.
It is aliases like l, ll, .., - or simple commands like vi that I don't want to appear in my history. the [[:space:]] is for cases where I typed v<tab> and it expanded to vim<space>
