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Re: bash: common history across multiple sessios ???



* Michael D. Schleif <mds@helices.org> [20030304 13:01 PST]:
> Several years ago, running ksh on several AIX and Solaris servers, and
> many, many simultaneous xterm's open on many boxen, commandline history
> was _common_ across all of my sessions on a given box.

zsh calls this option SHARE_HISTORY

> Is there a way to coerce bash to behave as my old ksh?

apt-get install zsh
echo "exec /bin/zsh" > ~/.bashrc

;-)

I don't think bash can do this.  zsh is an excellent alternative, or you
can use pdksh (ksh).
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