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...until you press up one too many times and enter the same command but with a typo. Again.
Been there, done that.
There is an option you can set in .zshrc or .bashrc which only includes lines that exit 0 (success)
Infuriatingly that would omit things like unit test runners from the history in case they don't pass. As a developer I tend to re-run failed commands quite often, not sure how widely that applies, though.
Oh, stuff like
git diffandgit logwill end up being omitted pretty often.And a lot of times, the commands that end with piping into
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