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lilyball on June 6, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: LeakedIn

It does for me

  >  echo test
  test
  > history
  ...
  6730   echo test
  6731  history

swores on June 6, 2012 [–]

Set this in your .bashrc

  HISTCONTROL=ignorespace

Or even better, though unrelated to this topic... Also get it to ignore duplicates that come next to each other.

  HISTCONTROL=ignoredups:ignorespace

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