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I've got MacBook from work and try to make it work similar to Linux. This is my config for history in bash:

# When the shell exits, append to the history file instead of overwriting it
export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth
export HISTSIZE=80000
export HISTFILESIZE=100000
export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%Y-%m-%d %T "

# append to the history file, don't overwrite it
shopt -s histappend

# After each command, append to the history file and reread it
PROMPT_COMMAND="${PROMPT_COMMAND:+$PROMPT_COMMAND$'\n'}history -a; history -c; history -r"

It's part of my dotfiles repo.

The setup suppose to work so commands from all terminal tabs/windows are added to history. This works perfect on Linux. But on Mac in some tabs history command only return one entry (the history command I just executed) and everything breaks. fzf show error:

`__fzf_history__`-bash fc: history specification out of range.

Can you explain what is happening and how to fix history in bash on MacOS?

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    To confirm, you switched your shell from zsh (the default on macos) to bash? Which bash, the system one which is an antique 3.2? Or one from homebrew or something? Commented Sep 3 at 14:43
  • Which dot-file did you add those settings to? And you said it doesn't work for some tabs - is that change recent? If so you'll need to either close & reopen those, or manually source the newly modified dot-file. Commented Sep 3 at 16:14
  • @tink The tabs were open after the code was added. And history doesn't work in some of the tabs. I have terminal with 4 tabs. Commented Sep 3 at 17:00
  • @muru I use default system bash. I forget to check new version from Homebrew. Will install and check if this fix the issue. Commented Sep 3 at 17:01
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    @waltinator I already use what is the answer to the question you've linked. Commented Sep 4 at 11:33

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