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Here you go, just throw it in your .bashrc: shopt -s histappend export HISTSIZE=100000 export HISTFILESIZE=100000 export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups:erasedu
by Tiksi 12y ago
Here you go, just throw it in your .bashrc:
shopt -s histappend
export HISTSIZE=100000
export HISTFILESIZE=100000
export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups:erasedups
export PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a;history -c;history -r;$PROMPT_COMMAND"
I wish I could give credit to where I originally found this but it was ages ago.
- mtford 12y agoMany thanks for this! This has been a thorn in my side for a while but never got round to doing anything about it...
- grimgrin 12y agoDon't you want HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth ?
- gknoy 12y agoI've been using `history -a`, but what do `history -c` and `history -r` do? It looks like it clears your shell's history, and then re-populates it from the .bash_history file?
- Flenser 12y agohistory -a # append history lines from this session to the history file. #History file may contain history from other terminals not in this one so: history -c # clear [in-memory] history list deleting all of the entries. history -r # read the history file and append the contents to the history list instead. I've heard that -n can be problematic which is why -c then -r is used.