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Comment by 5d41402abc4b

20 hours 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.

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.