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Shell history is valuable. Disk space is cheap. Store more history than bash's default.
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.bashrc
# don't put duplicate lines in the history. See bash(1) for more options
HISTCONTROL=ignoredups:ignorespace
HISTIGNORE=ls:fg
# append to the history file, don't overwrite it
shopt -s histappend
# for setting history length, see HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE in bash(1)
HISTSIZE=10000
HISTFILESIZE=20000
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