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Dru89
on Nov 30, 2012
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Love Your Terminal
Mine is set _somewhat_ ridiculously large. Just not that large. And it seems like it just gets to be obscene at some point.
jlgreco
on Nov 30, 2012
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Every few months I wipe out all of the `ls`, `clear`, `cd` and similar entries from my history file. Usually knocks the size down by a decent double-digit percentage.
netfeed
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the history size becomes a bit smaller if you add: export HISTCONTROL="ignoredups"
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