Re: possible bug with 4.1

[Bob Proulx]

George R Goffe wrote:
> I have noticed that some commands appear in history and some do
> not. I have isolated that to commands that have blanks before their
> name. I sometimes see this with pasted commands but this may be the
> same problem.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong by any chance?

This is a feature so that a user may control what commands go into the
history and which do not.  In the bash man page it says:

       HISTCONTROL
              A colon-separated list of values controlling  how  commands  are
              saved  on  the  history  list.   If  the list of values includes
              ignorespace, lines which begin with a space  character  are  not
              saved  in  the history list.

Remove "ignorespace" from HISTCONTROL and it will save commands that
begin with a space too.

Bob