Today i learned i can keep a command out of bash history by starting it with a space, as long as HISTCONTROL includes ignorespace or ignoreboth. Ubuntu's default .bashrc uses ignoreboth, so it probably already works for many people.
also, history | grep was way more useful once I added timestamps with HISTTIMEFORMAT. now I can see exactly when I ran a migration. why aren't these teh defaults everywhere?
ahh right multiple terminals, so i added histappend too.
Better than hiding sercets: dont put them on the command line at all. Use environment files or prompt for them, since they can also show up in prcoess lists.
been there man HISTSIZE conrtols how many commands are kept in memory and HISTFILESIZE how many are saved to ~/.bash_history. Increase both for longer history. lmk how it goes
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