[Techtalk] duplicate bash history entries

[Teri Solow]

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Dennis Wheeler imparted (2004-09-13 @ 09:25:55 -0700):
> According to the man page, it appears it only compares the current
> command to the previous one. So two 'ls' in a row, and only one is
> remembered, but do an 'ls' followed by a 'cd' and another 'ls' and
> you'll have both 'ls' in the history.
> 
> Not a very useful setting if that's true.

I beg to differ- for instance, if you aren't ignoring 'cd ..' in your
history than it is feasible that you may have about a gazillion
instances of it in your history.  Really annoying if you are trying to
back up to anything past that.  :)

Anyway, IMHO it just keeps the history neater.

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