Discussion on: Getting McFly Working on Ubuntu Server

[Jonas Brømsø]

Thanks for the article.

I love and use McFly and even if I am using McFly out of the box, your article had some great pointers, so I will be tweaking my configuration.

I thing that I love from Bash is: HISTIGNORE. It can be used to slim history, by not saving common commands following the patterns you specify

HISTIGNORE="pwd:ls:ls -l:cd:clear"

Apparently Zsh has a similar feature: HISTORY_IGNORE

export HISTORY_IGNORE="(ls|cd|pwd|exit|cd ..)"

I am going to try that out in combination with McFly and see how it works.

REF:

• jonasbn.github.io/til/bash/slimmin...
• stackoverflow.com/questions/385492...

[Nick Taylor]

Thanks for reading Jonas! Also, I was unaware of HISTORY_IGNORE and HISTIGNORE, so thanks for sharing that. That is an excellent power tip for McFly or history in general.