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Re: Bug on history control, don't erase no dups
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Bug on history control, don't erase no dups |
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Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:56:39 -0400 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Macintosh/20080421) |
B wrote:
I am guessing here. Something with multiple instances of bash acessing the
history. Are duplicates checked when a bash session is closed?
No, only when adding commands to the history list. It's impractical to
check every line in the history file when appending a session's history
to it.
Chet
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