On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 10:48:11AM -0400, Chris Murphy wrote: > Hi, > > For a long time I've noticed lost history from multiple Terminal tab/windows. It seems like the last tab or window to close is the history that gets written to .bash_history, and everything else is just lost. > > Somehow I found this: > https://web.archive.org/web/20090815205011/http://www.cuberick.com/2008/11/update-bash-history-in-realtime.html > > I've implemented the suggested two line change to .bash_profile: > > # User specific environment and startup programs > shopt -s histappend > PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a;$PROMPT_COMMAND" > The resulting behavior appears to be shells still have their own unique histories while active. But once closed, their histories become merged (interlaced based on the time they were issued?) and available when a new shell is created. > > I think this would be a pretty cool yet subtle Fedora 39 feature. However, I'm glad that you've found something that you like, but please don't mess with the default. I don't need extra I/O on every command, and for other reasons prefer the current behaviour. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
