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Discussion on: My Favorite Bash Tips, Tricks, and Shortcuts

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Jonas Brømsø

One of the less funky bash tricks, which I find it a bit overlooked is the ability to trim or slim the command line history.

Here is an example:

export HISTIGNORE="pwd:ls:ls -l:cd:clear"
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Lifted from my "Today I Learned" collection