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The Best Bash History Settings Ever
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| # /etc/profile.d/best_bash_history.sh | |
| # Save 5,000 lines of history in memory | |
| HISTSIZE=10000 | |
| # Save 2,000,000 lines of history to disk (will have to grep ~/.bash_history for full listing) | |
| HISTFILESIZE=2000000 | |
| # Append to history instead of overwrite | |
| shopt -s histappend | |
| # Ignore redundant or space commands | |
| HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth | |
| # Ignore more | |
| HISTIGNORE='ls:ll:ls -alh:pwd:clear:history' | |
| # Set time format | |
| HISTTIMEFORMAT='%F %T ' | |
| # Multiple commands on one line show up as a single line | |
| shopt -s cmdhist | |
| # Append new history lines, clear the history list, re-read the history list, print prompt. | |
| export PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a; history -c; history -r; $PROMPT_COMMAND" |
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Shouldn't all the variables be exported? It didn't work in my system until I exported everything