Miscellaneous bash history settings

.bashrc

# enable keeping history timestamps and set display format to ISO-8601
export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%F %T "

# ignore duplicates and commands starting with space
HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth
# ignore specific commands (full-length match)
HISTIGNORE=”?:cd:ls:ll:bg:fg:vim:git status”

# disable terminal flow control key binding, so that ^S will search history forward
stty -ixon

.inputrc

# make Ctrl-up/down search history for commands starting with currently
# typed prefix (unlike Ctrl-R/S, which searches entire command string).
"\e[1;5A":history-search-backward
"\e[1;5B":history-search-forward
"\e[5A": history-search-backward
"\e[5B": history-search-forward
"\e\e[A": history-search-backward
"\e\e[B": history-search-forward

# Also bind this to up and down arrow
"\e[1;A":history-search-backward
"\e[1;B":history-search-forward
"\e[A": history-search-backward
"\e[B": history-search-forward