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Re: history -s in ~/.bashrc mystery
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: history -s in ~/.bashrc mystery |
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Sat, 30 Oct 2021 14:26:37 -0400 |
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On 10/29/21 11:14 PM, Budi wrote:
Found that to meaning to add few command history by history -s in
~/.bashrc, is to clean or not
to load ~/.bash_history as the list is only that added lines
Though it's solved e.g. by history -r; history -s foo' history -s bar,
why is it so is still mystery
It's explicit and has been that way since bash-2.05. Loading the history
list takes place after reading the startup files, and you don't want to
overwrite any history entries that the startup files added.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/