Re: workaround to not overwrite .bash_history

[Michael Parson]

On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 11:22:48AM -0500, Michael Parson wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 01:34:06PM +0000, Henrique Niwa wrote:
>
>> hi, I would like to unify my .bash_history around the windows that
>> screen creates. What i want is just bash adding lines to the bash
>> history, without creating separate histories, because that is what it
>> seems to do, every window has its own history.  Anybody has any trick
>> to do this?
>
> Do you want a shared history across all bash instances in screen? or
> just for each time you exit a shell it not over-write your existing
> .bash_history?  AFAICT, there is no way to have a true shared history,
> that info is stored in memory until the shell exits.  You can set bash
> to append to, rather than overwrite, the existing history file though,
> at least in bash 3.1.1, which is what I'm running.
>
> Take a look at 'set -o histappend' and see if that does what you're
> looking for.

Replying to my own messaeg, bad form, I know, but a correction, that
should be 'shopt -s histappend'

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