Re: Bash history when running several term sessions to same account

[Paul Jarc]

Chet Ramey <chet@nike.ins.cwru.edu> wrote:
>> How do I make the history from one term session available to another
>> term session?
>
> Each bash instance keeps the history list in memory.  The list is
> written to the history file on exit or when told to using `history -w'
> or `history -a'.

Does "history -a" reset the notion of the "beginning of the current
session" for future invocations of itself so that the same history
entry is never written twice?  And is "history -n" very intelligent?
Would it work to put "history -n; history -a" in $PROMPT_COMMAND?


paul