Re: .bash_history

From: Adam Hardy (adam.ant_at_cyberspaceroad.com)
Date: 11/21/05

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    Clive Menzies on 21/11/05 10:23, wrote:
    > On (20/11/05 21:41), Ralph Katz wrote:
    >>On 11/20/2005 05:20 PM, Adam Hardy wrote:
    >>
    >>>I rely on .bash_history alot to remind me what command syntax to use - I
    >>>don't scroll back thro the history with the up button, I just grep the
    >>>.bash_history file for the command I want to run.
    >>>
    >>>This used to work until recently when I found that the .bash_history had
    >>>been transformed into a data file, instead of the ASCII text that I was
    >>>used to.
    >>>
    >>>I don't know what caused this. But I deleted the file and carried on.
    >>>For a while the .bash_history file returned as ASCII text, but now it's
    >>>happened again.
    >>
    >>Why not use control-r ? Does exactly that.
    >>
    >>>From man bash:
    >>
    >>>reverse-search-history (C-r)
    >>> Search backward starting at the current line and moving `up'
    >>> through the history as necessary. This is an incremental
    >>> search.

    thanks for the tips about C-r Is there some sort of documentation on
    this? I'd like to see how much history it keeps. It's a seperate program
    from history, right?

    Looks like I might have to make 10 minutes somewhere to find out what
    history does from the man page.

    Also, does anyone know what is going on with my .bash_history?

    Adam 

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