[gentoo-user] Preventing Midnight Commander from putting junk in .bash_history

[gentoo-user] Preventing Midnight Commander from putting junk in .bash_history

[Nikos Chantziaras]

My .bash_history contains lots of stuff like:

   cd "`printf "%b" '\0057home\0057realnc'`"

They seem to come from Midnight Commander and are very annoying.  Any 
way to prevent this stuff from ending up in the bash history?

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing Midnight Commander from putting junk in .bash_history

[Paul Hartman]

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@arcor.de> wrote:
> My .bash_history contains lots of stuff like:
>
>  cd "`printf "%b" '\0057home\0057realnc'`"
>
> They seem to come from Midnight Commander and are very annoying.  Any way to
> prevent this stuff from ending up in the bash history?

I use MC constantly and don't have anything at all like that (or
anything unusual) in my .bash_history

[gentoo-user] Re: Preventing Midnight Commander from putting junk in .bash_history

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@arcor.de> wrote:
>> My .bash_history contains lots of stuff like:
>>
>>  cd "`printf "%b" '\0057home\0057realnc'`"
>>
>> They seem to come from Midnight Commander and are very annoying.  Any way to
>> prevent this stuff from ending up in the bash history?
> 
> I use MC constantly and don't have anything at all like that (or
> anything unusual) in my .bash_history

It is a problem occurring with mc but I think I've found the solution 
now: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=529590

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Preventing Midnight Commander from putting junk in .bash_history

[Paul Hartman]

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@arcor.de> wrote:
> Paul Hartman wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@arcor.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> My .bash_history contains lots of stuff like:
>>>
>>>  cd "`printf "%b" '\0057home\0057realnc'`"
>>>
>>> They seem to come from Midnight Commander and are very annoying.  Any way
>>> to
>>> prevent this stuff from ending up in the bash history?
>>
>> I use MC constantly and don't have anything at all like that (or
>> anything unusual) in my .bash_history
>
> It is a problem occurring with mc but I think I've found the solution now:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=529590

It is strange, I do not have that environment variable set and checked
my /etc/bashrc and ~/.bashrc and neither has anything like that
either.

I'm using mc-4.6.2_pre1 and bash-4.0_p24 in case it makes a difference.

I hope that solution works for you! :)