something I noticed about CLI history

darkleaf · 10-04-2004, 08:13 AM

My CLI history only has the commands listed I did while in x (via xterm) and not the normal CLI I use to start x. Is that normal?

foo_bar_foo · 10-04-2004, 09:58 AM

It says in the docs
When an interactive shell exits, the last $HISTSIZE lines are copied from the history list to the file named by $HISTFILE.

term is login shell not interactive

there is bound to be a way to controll this
history -w
will write out to the file

i bet if you put that in a file ~/.bash_logout

it might change the behaviour

darkleaf · 10-04-2004, 10:01 AM

Thanks for the help!