Bug 500819
| Summary: | RFE: add HISTCONTROL="ignoreboth" to /etc/bashrc or /etc/profile | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Stefan Assmann <sassmann> |
| Component: | setup | Assignee: | Ondrej Vasik <ovasik> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | mosvald, ovasik, pknirsch, xalt7x.service |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | setup-2.8.5-1.fc12 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2009-05-20 12:36:57 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Thanks for suggestion, as it is default in Gentoo/OpenSuSe/Debian/Ubuntu, I'll change this that way in RAWHIDE as well - as I think distro consolidation is good thing. Changed in setup-2.8.5-1.fc12, closing RAWHIDE. Dear maintainers, I've found that the change asked here was applied and later reverted (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=520632). I believe that "ignoreboth"/"ignorespace" is a good default that is still provided by other popular distros (Ubuntu, Debian, openSUSE). It's also expected by KDE utilities with built-in terminals that register directory navigations using cd with leading space (e.g. Kate, Dolphin). Is it possible to re-introduce this change to improve default user experience? The needinfo request[s] on this closed bug have been removed as they have been unresolved for 120 days |
.bash_history currently keeps all the duplicate entries if you for example type the same line twice. That's annoying when you search through the history. By exporting HISTCONTROL="ignoreboth" duplicates and lines starting with a space will be ignored. It would be nice to have this as default for every user so I'd suggest to add this to the appropriate place (/etc/bashrc or /etc/profile or what else suits) excerpt from "man bash": HISTCONTROL A colon-separated list of values controlling how commands are saved on the history list. If the list of values includes ignorespace, lines which begin with a space character are not saved in the history list. A value of ignoredups causes lines matching the previous history entry to not be saved. A value of ignoreboth is shorthand for ignorespace and ignoredups. A value of erasedups causes all previous lines matching the current line to be removed from the history list before that line is saved. Any value not in the above list is ignored. If HISTCONTROL is unset, or does not include a valid value, all lines read by the shell parser are saved on the history list, subject to the value of HISTIGNORE. The second and subsequent lines of a multi-line compound command are not tested, and are added to the history regardless of the value of HISTCONTROL.