Re: .bash_history

From: Adam Hardy (adam.ant_at_cyberspaceroad.com)
Date: 11/22/05

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    Roberto C. Sanchez on 21/11/05 22:30, wrote:
    > On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 10:00:33PM +0000, Adam Hardy wrote:
    >
    >>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?
    >>
    >
    > HISTSIZE
    > The number of commands to remember in the command history (see
    > HISTORY below). The default value is 500.
    >
    > [...]
    >
    > To find other matching entries in the history list, type Control-S or
    > Control-R as appropriate. This will search backward or forward in the
    > history for the next entry matching the search string typed so far.
    > Any other key sequence bound to a readline command will terminate the
    > search and execute that command. For instance, a newline will termi-
    > nate the search and accept the line, thereby executing the command from
    > the history list.

    OK thanks.

    I assume that my .bash_history gets converted to binary at some point by
    bash. I can see that bash is using .bash_history now, but it's not clear
    why the file should become binary on my system.

    Adam 

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