On 11/12/20 1:33 PM, Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 at 10:05, chiasa.men <chiasa.men@xxxxxx <mailto:chiasa.men@xxxxxx>> wrote:
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kmail2 5.15.2 (20.08.2)
Earlier the konsole history was saved in /tmp/konsole-xxxxx.history. These
files seem to be gone (update?). The history still exists, so where is it
stored if not in /tmp/konsole-xxxxx.history?
I would never even have thought of looking in /tmp as that is often set to be erased when shutting down the computer. Also storing something system wide which should be user-specific makes little sense.
How about looking where it logically should be, namely ~/.bash-history ?
Seems to be a conflation with the user-input shell history and the scrollback history of the terminal going on here.
I think original request was for the scrollback history. Here's how to get that info...
(ins)sdowdy@carrotcake$ pstree -Alpsa $$
systemd,1
`-konsole,23071 --separate
`-bash,5456
`-pstree,6513 -Alpsa 5456
so, our parenting konsole for this shell is PID 23071, check the open files with 'lsof'...
(ins)sdowdy@carrotcake$ lsof -p 23071 | awk '$NF~/konsole.*\.history$/{print $NF}'
/run/user/7771/konsole-k23071.history
/run/user/7771/konsole-G23071.history
/run/user/7771/konsole-C23071.history
/run/user/7771/konsole-s23071.history
...
If i go into the Settings:
Settings->Edit Current Profile->[Scrolling]-> switch from "unlimited scrollback" to "No scrollback"
then check again:
(ins)sdowdy@carrotcake$ lsof -p 23071 | awk '$NF~/konsole.*\.history$/{print $NF}'
(ins)sdowdy@carrotcake$
as expected (no more scrollback history files).
Note that this directory is ${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR} (part of FreeDesktop aka XDG) which is where applications are supposed to keep their runtime non-persistent data.
It defaults to (on my system) /run/user/{uid} (user id)
now, the bigger question... these generally aren't user-serviceable parts, so what exactly do you need to do with them?
--stephen
