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Re: Bash history?
Andy Piper writes:
> 2) History is not preserved between sessions. Although bash
> writes out a history file - .bash_history - correctly. It is not read when
> I start a new bash. Nor can it be read manually. This means my history is
> always liimited to the current session which is annoying.
Looks like a bash bug. Regardless of whether mounted as binary or text, bash
insists on writing the history file entries as cr/lf. But on reading the
history file it hits the first cr and "beep" (no more history).
Tibor
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