Regarding comment #3: HISTCONTROL is colon-separated, not semicolon- separated.
HISTCONTROL used to work on .bash_history. I liked that behaviour since it minimised the .bash_history file's size allowing for more commands to be remembered. (It also stopped duplicates from cluttering the file.) Since there are a lot of commands that one uses rather infrequently but regularly that are long enough so that one doesn't always want to completely spell them out, the current behaviour is pretty annoying. It is, in fact, only useful if one wants a log of commands entered - which isn't .bash_historys job... -- ignoredupes in HISTCONTROL does not work anymore https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/397230 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
