command stack in buffer

Michael Welle mwe012008 at gmx.net
Tue Jan 5 11:56:55 UTC 2010


Hi,

vijay shanker <vijay.shad at gmail.com> writes:
[...]
>> Now that you raise the issue I am keen to try this solution from
>> http://blog.macromates.com/2008/working-with-history-in-bash/:
>>
>> add to bashrc
>>
>> export HISTCONTROL=erasedups
>> export HISTCONTROL=1000
>> shopt -s histappend
>>
>>
> I have added this in my ~/.bashrc
>
> But it makes no changes in my bash_history file. not able to describe the
> situation.
I don't know bash very well, but AFAIK setting HISTCONTROL to an integer
value is nonsense. See the manual page for bash for valid values. Have you
tried the suggestions in my previous posting? 

Regards
hmw

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