Terminal: save history?

[Mike Massonnet]

Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:57:37 +0200 - Benjamin Winkel <uzspde at uni-bonn.de>
wrote :

> I know that
> e.g. the bash uses a file ".bash_history". But this is only updated
> if I close one instance and only the commands of the closed terminal
> are saved into it.
> 

Put this command in your ~/.bashrc file to append the commands to the
history instead of overwriting:
shopt -s histappend

Add this line to write the previous line to disk, this avoids you to
close the session to write the history to the file:
PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a'

> Thanks a lot!
> 
> Benjamin

HTH,
Mike
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