Re: command not put into history if it starts with space

Mike, Thanks, I was unaware of HISTCONTROL. Paul On 6 February 2010 09:06, Jan Schampera wrote: > Mike Frysinger schrieb: > >>> 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 hist

command not put into history if it starts with space

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