<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Shell scripts and aliases are the way to go for common commands. What on earth are you using more than a 1000 commands in your history for? I recommend making yourself aliases and scripts for your most used commands which you should be able to discern from your history file. </div>
<div><br>On 5 Nov 2013, at 17:32, Simon Greenwood <<a href="mailto:sfgreenwood@gmail.com">sfgreenwood@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 5 November 2013 17:18, Steven Roberts <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cwmbranmathstutor@gmail.com" target="_blank">cwmbranmathstutor@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p>I just discovered that, as a default, only the last 1000 commands are stored in the bash history file. Pretty horrified! A quick bit of googling gave me the fix to increase the limit etc.</p>
<p>Not sure if this is just Ubuntu or linux in general.</p>
<p>If you're into the command line 1000 commands don't cover a very long period. I had made a backup of my history file in google docs/drive so not all was lost. But it's something I've never seen reference too before. I was on Ubuntu 12.04 so maybe it's changed since then? Don't know.</p>
<p><br></p></blockquote><div>It's been a thousand on most Linux distributions for a while. It certainly is in CentOS 5 and 6 so that goes back about six years. Interestingly it appears to have been 500 in Ubuntu in 2009 but I honestly can't remember. Would converting a few things into aliases or shell scripts reduce your reliance on history?</div>
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