On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 11:20:13AM +0100, dulev wrote:
> > I follow your instruction, but it doesn't work!
> >
> > > > I often use UP key to get commands entered previously. The shell show
> > > > some commands again and again, just because I have used them several
> > > > times. Can the shell be more smart?
> > >
> > > Put in ~/.bashrc
> > >
> > > export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups
>
> Sory.
> After that do logout and login again.
... or 'source' the file, e.g.,
$ . ~/.bashrc
or $ source ~/.bashrc
Another thing to check out with bash is ^R; hit ^R, then start typing and
bash will show previous commands matching what you type... or something.
Greatest thing since
$ perl -e '@b=split //,"bread"; print @b[0,1,2,3,4,5], "\n"'
Ken
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