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like history and fc but for a personalized list of useful commands
I have spent a few hours trying to get an easy access to my most useful commands I have to use in a certain environment, I have the "incredible" idea of using history for that purpose, to ...
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How can I make bash not repeatedly cut its history file
I just want the .bash_history file to store a lot of history, like $HISTSIZE=10000000, $HISTFILESIZE=10000000 which I have set months ago.
It does not work. I just tried ^R <some old command>, ...
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How to have bash' history as the same as the preceding Bash'?
How to have bash' history as the same as the preceding Bash'?
Few last history of bash is demanded to be so in the following but fail
$ bash -lc 'find . -iname \*.c; bash -l'
#or
$ bash -lc '...
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HISTFILE env var unset within programs. Can I access it in any way? [duplicate]
When I try to access the "HISTFILE" env var within a program, it isn't there
$ echo $HISTFILE
/Users/drewgross/.bash_history
$ python
Python 2.7.10 (default, Oct 23 2015, 19:19:21)
[GCC 4.2.1 ...
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