[ubuntu-uk] Saving history in the terminal

[Colin Law]

On 31 October 2012 11:06, scoundrel50agmail <scoundrel50a at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21/10/12 18:25, scoundrel50agmail wrote:
>>
>> How can I get the history to save in the terminal. Everytime I use it, it
>> keeps the history of that window, but when I close it, its gone.
>>
>>
> Hi, I posted this a while ago, and still havent been able to work it out,
> the terminal just does not save any history.....can somebody help?

Did you see Mark's reply?  Did you check out the file ~/.bash_history
and its permissions?  Is the history getting added to?

Colin