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by 5d41402abc4b 155 days ago
>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.

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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.