Save command run in bash function to history

Question

I have this bash function:

r () {
  builtin cd $HOME/rex
  rex $@
  builtin cd $OLDPWD
}

It is invoked with r blahblah .

I would like the r blahblah saved to my bash history. Currently, nothing gets saved to the history when I run r blahblah .

$HISTCONTROL is ignorespace

$HISTIGNORE is r *:lb:eb*

Answer 1

The problem was a malconfigured HISTIGNORE bash variable which told bash to ignore any commands beginning with r * .