Re: HISTCONTROL=erasedups is ignored while saving history

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/3/13 3:44 AM, Alfonsas Stonis wrote:

> 
> Bash Version: 4.2
> Patch Level: 37
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
>     HISTCONTROL=erasedups affects only what is showen by history command,
> but does not affect what is saved. Repeated commands are still added to
> history file completely ignoring HISTCONTROL.
> 
> Repeat-By:
>     Type the same comand few times. For exmple: ls, ls
>     Type history and you will see only one ls command
>     Exit bash
>     Enter bash and type history. You will see repeated ls command.

I don't see this:

z4(1)$ HISTFILE=histfile ./bash
z4(2)$ history
    1  history
z4(2)$ echo a
a
z4(2)$ echo b
b
z4(2)$ echo c
c
z4(2)$ exit
exit
z4(1)$ cat histfile
history
echo a
echo b
echo c
exit
z4(1)$ HISTFILE=histfile ./bash
z4(2)$ HISTCONTROL=erasedups
z4(2)$ ls
z4(2)$ ls
z4(2)$ history
    1  echo a
    2  echo b
    3  echo c
    4  exit
    5  HISTCONTROL=erasedups
    6  ls
    7  history
z4(2)$ exit
exit
z4(1)$ cat histfile
history
echo a
echo b
echo c
exit
HISTCONTROL=erasedups
ls
history
exit

(I omitted the `ls' output.)
The history file does not contain multiple `ls' commands.

Chet

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