Re: [Help-bash] Adding a marker line to history at interactive shell start (and history timestamps)

[Chet Ramey]

On 6/26/12 2:56 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:

> I can reproduce this using bash-3.2.51; I get all the lines except the
> last commented one when I type `history' at the command line. I'll have to
> look into it, but I will be very surprised if the comment character, since
> it's the same as the history comment character, is not causing the line to
> be mistaken for a timestamp.  That check was tightened up between bash-3.2
> and bash-4.0.

And that's the case.  The line is never being passed to add_history because
the history file reading code thinks it's a timestamp.

Chet
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