Re: [opensuse] Extremely hideous mishandling of history in bash

Dave Howorth wrote:
Andreas Jaeger wrote:
9.3 is ancient and does not even get security fixes anymore...

Feel free to attack the m/c if you think that's a problem. It works for
now :( Perhaps I'll upgrade it to 11.1

It appears to have completely lost the record of the ls -Af command that
was executed and instead recorded a command that was never executed.
Yes, happens on my 11.0 system as well - and it looks like this is
intented, it's history editing IMO.

Yes, that's why British and American history books read differently :)

It would be better if it kept the original edited line and inserted the
new one at the end, IMHO.

As a workaround, if I realize I've made a mistake whilst editing a
command, I don't abandon the edit. I add something else to make it
harmless, such as a nonexistent command at the beginning, and then
execute it. That way, I can recover the original history.

Cheers, Dave

I've given the mysterious commands a go and all is fine on an 11.0 laptop, 10.3 server, 10.3 desktop, and 10.0 server. All produce the following in the history list:

3015 ls -A
3016 ls -Af
3017 history

I agree with Dave. I had a 9.3 server until just a few months ago. I found no real reason to change it other than to avoid becoming a dinosaur...Dave?



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