[ale] Fedora 9

[brian at polibyte.com (Brian Pitts)]

William Bagwell wrote:
> As far as remembering obscure commands, bash history is a life saver for me. 
> Just scroll back till you find the one your looking for. I even periodically 
> go in* and remove all the "su"s "cd"s and "ls"s so I can find the important 
> stuff faster.

You can set $HISTIGNORE to filter out commands you don't want saved in 
your history, but it only works on exact matches.

Are you familiar with using ! and ctrl-r to search your history? They're 
both real timesavers.

http://www.talug.org/events/20030709/cmdline_history.html

-Brian