On 03/28/2012 09:51 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
usually bash writes down .bash_history on close
try it out with "cat ~/.bash_history" and you will
not see the entries of your current session!
so if you have more than one bash-instance open
all of them writing down their history and the
last one wins
That behavior has always annoyed me, since I always seem to be missing
useful parts of my history. Recently, someone suggested I add the
following to my .bash_profile:
export HISTSIZE=5000
shopt -s histappend
PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a;$PROMPT_COMMAND"
First, it increases my history size, and second, it appends the current
shell's history to the file, not overwrites it, and third, it updates
the history file with each command that is entered.
I am much happier now.
Woogie
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