Prevent Command From Being Recorded in History

[anuade]

Sometimes it is useful to exclude a command from being recorded in history. Is there any straightforward way to do this apart from, say, running a batch file? For example in bash, a space before the command would prevent its being recorded. Thank you.

[chrisant996]

By default, a space prevents a command from being recorded in history.

There is a setting which controls that. Refer to the docs for more info.