Re: bash history

["Kelly Clowers" <kelly.clowers@gmail.com>]

On Jan 16, 2008 3:25 PM, Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com> wrote:
> I use alot of console windows in X as well as having shells and ssh shells open
> sometimes for the same user. I notice that bash doesn't save every command
> immediately and loses the history from simultaneous bash sessions, when they are
> not the last session to close.
>
> Is that normal? Or is there some sort of caching that I can configure better?

>From my .bashrc:

    # bash options
    # ignores dups (ignoredups) and commands preceded by a space (ignorespace)
    HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth

    HISTFILESIZE=10000000
    HISTSIZE=10000

    # append history instead of overwriting
    shopt -s histappend
    # every time a prompt is displayed, append the previous line to history
    PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a'


Cheers,
Kelly Clowers