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...

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ignoredupes in HISTCONTROL does not work anymore
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/397230
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