Re: workaround to not overwrite .bash_history

[Juergen Weigert]

On Jun 12, 06 13:34:06 +0000, Henrique Niwa wrote:
> hi,
> I would like to unify my .bash_history around the
> windows that screen creates. What i want is just bash
> adding lines to the bash history, without creating
> separate histories, because that is what it seems to
> do, every window has its own history.
> Anybody has any trick to do this?

try adding the following line to your ~/.bash_logout
history -a $HISTFILE

No idea how good that works. I am achiving the effect in tcsh with
set savehist=(1000 merge)

        cheers,
                Jw.

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