[Cialug] How to add multiple instances of bash to your bash history

[Don Ellis]

Fixing the bug sounds nice, but that would arbitrarily change behavior.

A more gentle solution would be to make the default /etc/bash.bashrc (or
equivalent) include these lines. OTOH, a problem arises in a distro (or
whatever BSD calls them) doesn't have a /etc/bash.bashrc, wherein the
default ~/.bashrc could contain those lines. This would make it work
rationally by default, but someone who doesn't like it could change it
easily.

Of course, there should be a collection somewhere of things you always want
to add to your bashrc on first installation, and this should be in that
collection.

--Don Ellis


On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 6:23 AM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mar 19, 2014 11:56 PM, "Adam Hill" <adam at diginc.us> wrote:
> >
> > Here is my standard history setup from ~/.bashrc
> >
> > export HISTSIZE=100000
> > export HISTFILESIZE=50000
> > export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups
> > export PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a; history -n; $PROMPT_COMMAND"
> >
> > the -a submits your recent commands so other sessions see them, the -n
> > pulls the hitsory back into your session so you can see your other
> > sessions' history.
>
> Clever. But it seems like the GNU people ought to just fix the bug.
>
> --
> Todd
>
>