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RE: Bash history?
- To: "gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>, "'Andy Piper'" <andyp at parallax dot co dot uk>
- Subject: RE: Bash history?
- From: Sergey Okhapkin <sos at prospect dot com dot ru>
- Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 11:02:31 +0400
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Andy Piper wrote:
> 1) ~ seems to be interpreted wrongly. If I do `cd ~' I get:
> bash.exe: C:WINNTProfilesandyp: No such file or directory
> cd $HOME works fine. Somehow the /'s are getting stripped out.
I'm sure, there are backslashes instead of slashes in your HOME env. var. Set HOME to
c:/WINNT/Profiles/andyp.
>
> 2) History is not preserved between sessions. Although bash
> writes out a history file - .bash_history - correctly. It is not read when
Fix the first problem, and the second one should came out.
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Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
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