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RE: Bash history?


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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