Terminal: save history?

[Benjamin Winkel]

Thanks!

Mike Massonnet wrote:
> 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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