alt Hacker NewsSomething that should be mentioned is starting a command with a space doesn't add it to your history in most shells, really useful for one-off commands that you don't want cluttering your history.
Also, increase your `$HISTSIZE` to more than you think you would need, there have been cases where it helped me find some obscure command I ran like 3 years before.
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l72 • yesterday at 11:12 AM
Also a good thing to remember if you are ever dealing with credentials:
$ APIKEY=asdfdfds
$ curl -H "x-api-key: $APIKEY" https://example.com
HISTCONTROL=erasedups can also help keeping more obscure commands in your history, at the expense of context around commands.