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Re: Saving command history for non-interactive shell


From: Greg Wooledge
Subject: Re: Saving command history for non-interactive shell
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:39:24 -0400
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On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 06:15:35PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> There is nothing stopping you from using history in a non-interactive
> shell -- it's just not enabled by default.
> 
> Turn on history with `set -o history' and set HISTFILE and HISTSIZE as you
> like.  You can probably set some of the right variables in .ssh/environment
> and set BASH_ENV to a file that will run the commands you want.

The problem is, that doesn't actually work.

imadev:~$ ssh localhost bash <<'EOF'                                            
> set -o history
> HISTFILE=~/.bash_history
> HISTFILESIZE=500
> echo hello world
> EOF
wooledg@localhost's password: 
hello world
imadev:~$ tail -2 .bash_history
rm statistical.tcl.rej 
less sched.tcl.rej 

I blame this part of the documentation, although perhaps I should be
looking at the code instead:

  When an interactive shell exits, the last $HISTSIZE lines
  are copied from the history list to $HISTFILE.

I read that as "the HISTFILE doesn't get updated when a NON-interactive
shell exits".

This one works, though:

imadev:~$ ssh localhost bash <<'EOF'
> set -o history
> HISTFILE=~/.bash_history
> HISTFILESIZE=500
> echo hello world
> history -a
> EOF
wooledg@localhost's password: 
hello world
imadev:~$ tail -6 .bash_history
rm statistical.tcl.rej 
less sched.tcl.rej 
HISTFILE=~/.bash_history
HISTFILESIZE=500
echo hello world
history -a

However, since the original intent was "I want to log commands that are
launched through ssh, without modifying what the client sends", it's not
clear to me how to wrap all of that prefix and postfix code around the
client's commands.



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