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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Rob Ransbottom wrote: > If I recall correctly Bourne shell behavior in System V > was to save the last commands into the history file. > Or maybe it was early ksh. > > With GNU bash, version 2.03.0(1)-release (i386-pc-linux-gnu), > I get HISTSIZE lines of history, then new commands are not > entered into history. The history file is repeatedly > truncated at the same point. > > This seems inconsistent with the documentation. > Am I missing a switch someplace or what? > Are yo doing this under X with multiple terminal windows? Or perhaps using startx from a command-line login? Multiple instances of bash don't know about each other, so the last one to exit gets the last chance to overwrite .bash_history. - -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER jabr at jabber.org / YAHOO abreauj Email jabr at blu.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iQCVAwUBPIemf1V9A5rVx7XZAQEUMwQA0T3IntbgK5dUmUTT7rXe/DlFTU1U8XiY wwf69Q7qDTDqUDDXIj9fkCZQPhOo8Wgrg4vRmlq7bbvp1YnaRChLHMveab9WECpA 2JQ0Lm7l3Z/ruF4G1ofHYwh4PzutKWGkZIl//AYXed1lZrIxr8MEYM3lxc8RljvI sCiATzFalkI= =DjIZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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