The .bash_history that Never Heard Anything at All

[Andrew "Tuna" Harris]

Top-posting 'cuz you did

The .bash_profile thing works beautifully, except I found that I had to
add it to .bashrc for it to work with my aterms and xterms too. Thanks!

Excerpts from Lisa Kachold's message of Sun Apr 26 05:27:52 -0700 2009:
> Hey SuperTunaMan,
> 
> By default, all commands you type in are stored in the history. You can pick
> and chose the commands you want to store by putting the option
> 
> export HISTCONTROL=ignorespace
> 
> in your ~/.bash_profile file. This will *make sure that bash dont store any
> command beginning with the space character*. So if you want bash to forget
> that you typed in ls, just type in  ls(<space>ls).
> 
> As far as I know, command substitution [backtics] and sub-command setup also
> can be torqued (and cause a nice Snort IDS alert) to do this nicely:
> http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/advanced_bash_scripting_guide/commandsub.
> html
> 
> Custom variables are available for bash HIST:
> http://sock-raw.org/papers/bash_history
> 
> Or a separate logfile for each term:
> http://www.ducea.com/2006/05/15/linux-tips-take-control-of-your-bash_history/
> 
> I also suggest a keylogger:
> http://www2.packetstormsecurity.org/cgi-bin/search/search.cgi?searchvalue=linux+
> bash+keyloggers&type=archives&[search].x=0&[search].y=0
> 
> 
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 4:44 AM, Andrew "Tuna" Harris <tuna at supertunaman.com
> > wrote:
> 
> > Herroes
> >
> > There are some seekrit things that I would rather not have my
> > .bash_history knowing. Is there a way to set rules that prevent commands
> > containing a certain word like, say, "angry_watermelon" from being stored?
> >
> > Also, are things that are sent to standard out logged anywhere?
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