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Re: Bash history weirdness
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John |
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Re: Bash history weirdness |
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Sun, 4 Oct 2009 15:50:52 +0000 (UTC) |
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On 3 Oct 2009 at 20:19, Wanna-Be Sys Admin wrote:
> John wrote:
>> If I do "history -w" then it writes the current history to
>> ~/.bash_history as expected.
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>> But if I do "history -a" then ~/.bash_history doesn't get changed, and
>> from the modification time it hasn't been touched at all.
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> Where they "new" history lines, or did you run that right after -w?
Yes, there was history to write!
Actually what happened was that I noticed "history -a" wasn't working,
then tried "history -w" and was surprised to find that it *did* work.