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		lilyball on June 6, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LeakedIn It does for me `> echo test test > history ... 6730 echo test 6731 history`

swores on June 6, 2012 [–]

Set this in your .bashrc

  HISTCONTROL=ignorespace

Or even better, though unrelated to this topic... Also get it to ignore duplicates that come next to each other.

  HISTCONTROL=ignoredups:ignorespace

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