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by alecco 1141 days ago
* HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth

* prefix with space the commands you don't want to keep

* edit your existing .bash_history by prefixing all commands with space (then reload with history -r)

* after session exit or on next login, edit the new commands at the end (vi ~/.bash_history && history -r)

* use comments on the commands to make it easy to search (use keywords)

* group command lines by category (e.g. package manager, git, ssh, backup, find, dev)