Add a /N switch to the history command

[Gregg Young]

/N would add the item to the history list only if it not already there.

[Lewis Rosenthal]

As a bit of a workaround, in my XWP Shutdown folder, I have an object which does this:

4OS2.EXE /c "history | perl -ne '/;/ or print unless $seen{$_}++' > C:\HOME\DEFAULT\.history && delay"

This filters out those lines where I've mistakenly hit ";" instead of ":" (I should improve that to limit those to only those lines containing one letter before the semicolon, I 'spose) and non-unique lines. Thus, multiple occurrences of dir, cd, etc. get filtered when saving the history for re-reading at next startup.

This is no substitute for not cluttering up the list with the dupes in the first place, of course, so your RFE wouldbe quite useful, Gregg.

[Steven Levine]

Ticket retargeted after milestone closed

[Gregg Young]

This is intended to check for dups when using /a. Consider changing /a to do this.

[Gregg Young]

Rev 38287, 38309 HistNoDups=yes in INI makes /a add the item to the history list only if it not already there.