bash History on F7

[Robin Laing]

John Summerfield wrote:
> Adel ESSAFI wrote:
>> Dear All
>> I have a strange behaviour on my bash shell on F7. In some session, I 
>> lose all the histoty!!! I don t find any command that I have executed 
>> in my previous sessions.
>> Regards.
>> Adel
>>
> \ls -l ~/.bash_history
> \lsattr ~/.bash_history
> 
> Change ~ to ~whatever as appropriate.
> 
> Oh, and just leave "reply to" pointing at the list. I don't like 
> replying off-list.
> 
> 

I have noticed this for ages.  If you have multiple shells open, one 
will override the others.  So some sessions won't be stored in the 
history.  If you are like me, I have multiple shell windows open so I 
don't rely on history.  At home I only keep one line for privacy.

-- 
Robin Laing