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mdwrigh2 on Nov 24, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: SSH Commands / Tricks

Just put a space before you execute the command, then it doesn't get saved in history. Alternatively, delete it from your history file as the other commenter suggests.

gahahaha on Nov 24, 2010 [–]

I don't have a box to test this on right now, but you might have to set HISTCONTROL=ignorespace for that to work.

mdwrigh2 on Nov 28, 2010 | [–]

At least under ZSH (on Ubuntu), I don't appear to have the HISTCONTROL environment variable set and yet it still ignores anything prepended with a space.

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