Re: Global history list

[Chet Ramey]

Henryk Fuks wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I found at https://sourceforge.net/projects/bash-gchistory/
> a patch which allows to access shell command history across
> multiple open instances of the shell. It seems that the patch
> is no longer maintained, and it requires bash 3.00.16.
> 
> Are there any plans to incorporate this patch into official
> bash relase? If not, is there any other way to have just one
> history list, even if many instances of the shell are open?

Something like this is on the list of possible future projects.
In the meantime, it is possible to use history -a and history -n
in PROMPT_COMMAND to achieve similar results.

Chet

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