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daf666

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BASH history - how to make up-arrow show only unique history entries.

Hi all.
I am used to Arch's bash settings, when pressing the up-arrow in console, I only get unique entries and not 'ls' then again 'ls' and again.... if I actually used these commands (In Arch it would only show one ls and then the command before that)
So how to do that in other distros? (like Debian)

nblock

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Re: BASH history - how to make up-arrow show only unique history entries.

look at /etc/profile:

HISTCONTROL="erasedups"
export HISTCONTROL

Last edited by nblock (2009-12-29 19:29:16)

daf666

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Re: BASH history - how to make up-arrow show only unique history entries.

kewl... thanks