Description of problem: Start mc and change directory. mc will add lines like PROMPT_COMMAND='pwd>&7;kill -STOP $$' cd "`echo -e '\057root'`" to the .bash_history Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mc-4.6.1a-35.fc6 (older ones as well) How reproducible: Just use mc and your .bash_history will be filled Steps to Reproduce: 1. mc 2. cd / 3. exit Actual results: ~/.bash_history gets filled Expected results: ~/.bash_history should be clean Additional info: A simple fix is to export HISTIGNORE="[ ]*" to the environment. Since these lines are very annoying it should be considered to change that behaviour with HISTIGNORE in /etc/profile.d/mc.* or /etc/profile.
Also HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth solves this problem. It's caused by .bashrc which is being processed each time a subshell command is executed. The subshell doesn't store histories to .bash_history at all in the default .bashrc.
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