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Re: [Help-bash] .bash_history lost
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Chris Down |
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Re: [Help-bash] .bash_history lost |
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Mon, 10 Mar 2014 13:32:16 +0800 |
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Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) |
Manuel Reimer writes:
> Today this seems to have killed my .bash_history somehow. After rebooting
> and logging in as "root" again, my .bash_history was shown as zero sized
> file and all my previous commands are lost.
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> How can something like this happen? Is it a bad idea to enter "reboot" in a
> shell if I don't want to corrupt the history file?
If you have multiple shells open, this can happen.
Take a look at this thread, which discusses the issue:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2013-07/msg00096.html
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