Re: [Bug-wget] export wget history varible

[Ander Juaristi]

*_HISTORY environment variables were used by convention by *interactive* 
applications (applications that offer their own CLI with their own 
commands) to establish the path of the history file. These applications 
often used GNU readline to read commands from the user, and the 
management of the history file was also handled by readline itself. 
That's why many interactive applications mimicked the behavior, because 
it was easy to implement - readline handled it for you.

Since wget is not an interactive command there's no need for such an 
environment variable. It is well suited in your examples: the MySQL 
client, scapy and python feature a built-in CLI, but it's not the case 
for wget. As Tim said, your shell is likely to store the latest commands 
in a history file for you. If you really want to store your history in 
~/.history/wget, then append 'export HISTFILE=~/.history/wget' to your 
~/.bashrc. But again, that's out of the scope of wget.

<OFF-TOPIC>
I am working on a (limited) interactive wget that accepts some commands 
from the user and allows autocompletion of links and other goodies, but 
that's still work in progress [1], and if some day sees the light, it 
will be as part of wget2, the next major release. I'll discuss this with 
the maintainers when the time comes, this is not the right thread. I'm 
expecting to finish it during summer.
</OFF-TOPIC>

The bottom line is that current wget is not interactive and so there's 
no need for that feature.

[1] https://github.com/juaristi/wget2/tree/wget2-interactive-mode

On 29/03/16 11:01, VendForce Security wrote:
> I want to put all the console history files in one place
>
> In mysql you can do
> export MSQL_HISTFILE=~/.history/mysql
> and the history file is created and stored
>
> I can so this with mysql, bash, python, postgres, scapy
>
> How can I do it with wget in linux using the $HOME/.bashrc
>
> I've tried
>
> export WGET_HISTORY=~/.history/wget
> export WGET_HIST=~/.history/wget
> export WGET_HIST=~/.history/wget
>
> scapy devs have made a commit, so I'm only left with wget now. The rest
> have or had  enviroment varible for export history
>
> is there varible for history ?