Odd command line recall problem

buggsy2 buggsy2@zippymail.info
Thu Dec 19 16:06:00 GMT 2013


Excellent! I unset HISTIGNORE and use HISTCONTROL to remove duplicates. Also
learned something about \t. What was in HISTIGNORE must have been the setup
default perhaps, though not necessarily from cygwin, it might be from
another bash shell setup.


Eric Blake-3 wrote
> On 12/18/2013 04:42 PM, buggsy2 wrote:
>> Good idea, right now it's:
>> 
>> xyz:/cygdrive/d/>printenv HISTIGNORE
>> &:[ \t]*:#*
> 
> This says:
> 
> ignore duplicate commands,
> ignore any command starting with space, backslash, or t,
> ignore any comment
> 
> and tac starts with 't'.





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