Just tested it and 'history -a' behaves how you say. Maybe it was an older version of bash that had this behavior. Edit: now I'm obsessing about reproducing th

Just tested it and 'history -a' behaves how you say. Maybe it was an older version of bash that had this behavior. Edit: now I'm obsessing about reproducing this behavior from years ago! If anyone knows what I'm talking about I'd be grateful for some validation :)