Re: workaround to not overwrite .bash_history

[cga2000]

On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 06:52:57PM EDT, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> You might be able to get by with something like:
> 
> export PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a $HISTFILE"
> 
this appends the current session's history list to the history file.
Since the OP wants to share the history across sessions I assume this
includes sessions that are already running?

In that case he would also need to do a "history -n".

I don't know if the PROMPT_COMMAND supports more than one command - and
it's a bit late to test. :-) 

But he could probably define a bash function something like:

shrhist ()
{
        history -a $HISTFILE
        history -n $HISTFILE
}

.. thus keeping his history lists & history file in sync' ..?

Thanks,

cga
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