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Article #4032Re: Bash history weirdness
From: John
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:50
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:50
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On 3 Oct 2009 at 20:19, Wanna-Be Sys Admin wrote: > John wrote: >> If I do "history -w" then it writes the current history to >> ~/.bash_history as expected. >> >> But if I do "history -a" then ~/.bash_history doesn't get changed, and >> from the modification time it hasn't been touched at all. > > Where they "new" history lines, or did you run that right after -w? Yes, there was history to write! Actually what happened was that I noticed "history -a" wasn't working, then tried "history -w" and was surprised to find that it *did* work.
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