On 2019-05-21 10:17, Eric Blake wrote: > On 5/21/19 11:10 AM, A GS wrote: >> What about making "up" go through duplicate commands? I think this is the >> behaviour on some linuxes but I don't know the specifics. That would be neat. > > 'info bash HISTCONTROL' > > It sounds like you are asking for the Cygwin /etc/profile (or the > skeleton .bashrc file) to be tweaked to add a HISTCONTROL=ignoredups so > that new installations automatically turn on that feature of bash. But > in the meantime, you can modify your own ~/.bashrc to turn it on for > yourself.
To get the result you probably expect set "HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth:erasedups" -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
