environment variables relating to .bash_history

history

# Unset bounds on history file. Disk is cheap, unlimited is fine until it's not
# and then rotate
export HISTFILESIZE=
export HISTSIZE=

# Add timestamps to .bash_history
# TODO: find someway to store the current working directory for forensics
export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "

# The "ignoreboth" setting ignores repeated lines as well as silently discards
# lines beginning with a space for privacy. Equivalent to 'ignoredups' and
# 'ignorespace'
export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth

# Commands to not log in history
export HISTIGNORE=ls:cd

# If set, the history list is appended to the file named by the value of the
# HISTFILE variable when the shell exits, rather than overwriting the file.
shopt -s histappend