Re: bash history

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>]

On 2008-01-17 05:37:34 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> set -o histappend
>
> appends the history file instead of overwriting it.

$ set -o histappend
bash: set: histappend: invalid option name

But even if it can append commands, would bash do that *immediately*?
It seems that bash can save the history only when it exits.

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