Re: .bash_history

[Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com>]

Clive Menzies on 21/11/05 10:23, wrote:
> On (20/11/05 21:41), Ralph Katz wrote:
> > On 11/20/2005 05:20 PM, Adam Hardy wrote:
> >
> > > I rely on .bash_history alot to remind me what command syntax to use - I
> > > don't scroll back thro the history with the up button, I just grep the
> > > .bash_history file for the command I want to run.
> > >
> > > This used to work until recently when I found that the .bash_history had
> > > been transformed into a data file, instead of the ASCII text that I was
> > > used to.
> > >
> > > I don't know what caused this. But I deleted the file and carried on.
> > > For a while the .bash_history file returned as ASCII text, but now it's
> > > happened again.
> >
> > Why not use control-r ?  Does exactly that.
> >
> > > From man bash:
> >
> > > reverse-search-history (C-r)
> > >              Search backward starting at the current  line  and  moving  `up'
> > >              through  the  history  as  necessary.   This  is  an incremental
> > >              search.

thanks for the tips about C-r Is there some sort of documentation on 
this? I'd like to see how much history it keeps. It's a seperate program 
from history, right?

Looks like I might have to make 10 minutes somewhere to find out what 
history does from the man page.

Also, does anyone know what is going on with my .bash_history?


Adam