[Techtalk] duplicate bash history entries

[Carla Schroder]

On Sunday 12 September 2004 8:11 am, aec wrote:
> Hi,
> I have my ~/.bash_profile set to source ~/.bashrc ; inside bashrc,
> I have the line : 
> 
> export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups 
> 
> yet my history file is full of duplicate commands, 
> is there something else i need to do to have only 
> unique commands stored in my history file? 
> 
> This is is on Debian Sid.
> 

Is this a recent modification? It won't do anything about the existing lines 
in your history file, only the new ones after you added 'export 
HISTCONTROL=ignoredups' to your bashrc.

Also, does ~/.bash_profile reference your ~/.bashrc? It should have these 
lines:

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
        source ~/.bashrc
fi

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