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#11 Re: Bash eternal history Posted by Anonymous (84.221.xx.xx) on Fri 17 Aug 2007 at 11:34 This functionality is already available in Bash. If you unset HISTSIZE, every Bash session keeps in memory all the commands entered into it (instead of the last $HISTSIZE only.) If you unset HISTFILESIZE, at the end of each session Bash inconditionally appends all the commands it has in memory to the history file (instead of truncating the file to be at most $HISTFILESIZE lines.) I've been using the following in my .bashrc for a long time: unset HISTSIZE unset HISTFILESIZE Granted, it does'n have that fancy "PID USER INDEX TIMESTAMP" thing, but it's simple, builtin and fast.

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