Re: Savannah and (getting old) issue 108530 reported there

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/15/15 8:44 AM, Balaco Baco wrote:
> I have this issue, and talking with several people and searching around,
> I see that this seems to be a recurring problem for many users.
> 
> Some just "fix" it around by using a N times bigger history than they
> wished. Others just consider it a "bug that exists, but won't do nothing
> about it".

This isn't a bug.  Readline (and bash) only deals with in-memory history
lists -- the history facilities are not intended to, nor do they,
operate on disk files other than reading and writing them.  There are
also no facilities for sharing history files between sessions other
than synchronizing the history file after each command.

If you want to remove duplicates from a history file, you have to read
it into memory, use the existing history functions to operate on it,
and write it.  There is a program (hist_erasedups.c) in the readline-6.3
examples subdirectory that shows how to do that.

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