alt Hacker News>But wait – the token= command ends up in the history again
If you prepend your command with a space, it will not be added to your shell history.
>But wait – the token= command ends up in the history again
If you prepend your command with a space, it will not be added to your shell history.
As I mention in the post:
>One way to avoid this is to prevent the command from being written to history. Bash has a configuration variable named HISTCONTROL, which when set to include ignorespace prevents commands prefixed with whitespace from being saved in history.