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bash: per-command history. How does it work?

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OK. I have an old G5 running Leopard and a Dell running Ubuntu 10.04 at home and a MacPro also running Leopard at work. I use Terminal.app/bash a lot. On my home G5 it exhibits a nice feature: using to navigate history I get the last command starting with the few letters that I've typed. This is wh…

Error Output

$ ssh user@server
$ vim /some/file/just/to/populate/history
$ ss|

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Add the following to : I've used this for quite a while now, therefore unfortunately I cannot credit the source.

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