-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 2008-12-11 at 07:14 -0500, James Knott wrote:

The history is saved in ./.bash_history. I believe that when you hit the size limit, the oldest commands are removed, rather than the entire list cleared, so if such a thing happened whenever the max number was reached, it would happen on every command, after you reached that limit. However, there's nothing to stop you from working with that file and copying it's contents etc.

I /think/ the history is saved only when you exit bash. Till that moment, the current history is in memory only, and the file holds the previous session data. What happens when you have many bash sessions opened, I do not know. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAklBDdEACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WW9gCaAuu3TgsACdVqM0dX7pzyo6PD 6bEAn2L1RlEGoWvGjMvOq5FPxRnQ692s =VI3o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Carlos E. R. wrote:-

I /think/ the history is saved only when you exit bash. Till that moment, the current history is in memory only, and the file holds the previous session data.

It is kept in memory, unless you use "history -a" command to flush the in-memory history out to .bash_history[0]. By using "history -a" in once console, you can "import" the commands allows the used in that console into a previously opened console by using "history -n".

What happens when you have many bash sessions opened, I do not know.

When you close them, each consoles history is written to .bash_history and the oldest lines that go beyond the limit are lost. [0] And can be very useful if you paste something into the wrong console which would fill up your .bash_history with useless stuff. Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: http://www.distributed.net/ OGR-NG @ ~100Mnodes RC5-72 @ ~1Mkeys/s SUSE 10.1 32 | | openSUSE 10.3 32b | openSUSE 11.0 32b | openSUSE 10.2 64b | openSUSE 10.3 64b | openSUSE 11.0 64b RISC OS 3.6 | TOS 4.02 | openSUSE 10.3 PPC | RISC OS 3.11 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Friday 12 December 2008 08:43, Amedee Van Gasse wrote:

On Thu, December 11, 2008 09:10, David C. Rankin wrote:

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Listmates,

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I know it's not an answer to your question, but this helps to keep the bash history shorter:

export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups or export HISTCONTROL=erasedups

I exclude all one- and two-character commands, the job-control command "fg," all directory-changing commands (including my idiosyncratic directory stack commands, td, fd, tdu and tdd) as well as "exit" and "logout" from my history: export HISTIGNORE="?:??:td[ud]:fg *:exit:logout"

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Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Randall R Schulz wrote:

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I did want to post that I had found a very novel and solid approach to saving bash history eternally:

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/543

The article is "bash eternal history" and uses the PROMPT command to preserve all bash commands. Those Debian guys....

Dude! I posted my own solution based on this concept (which I came up on my own) when this thread first came up!

Check it out back in this thread on Dec. 23 at 06:25 (PST). It has an attachment, the script fragments for your ".bashrc". Admittedly, that was after the bulk of the conversation had ceased, but then, so is your posting today.

This is the archive entry: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2008-12/msg01822.html

Damn, I'm getting old. Ten years ago, I would never have forgotten 1 of the 24,601 emails in my openSuSE folder. I actually like your format better. Maybe Ginko will help the memory...;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Randall R Schulz wrote:

On Saturday February 7 2009, David C. Rankin wrote:

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... Dude! I posted my own solution based on this concept (which I came up on my own) when this thread first came up!

... Damn, I'm getting old. Ten years ago, I would never have forgotten 1 of the 24,601 emails in my openSuSE folder. I actually like your

Randall R Schulz wrote: format better. Maybe Ginko will help the memory...;-)

Is Ginko the one for you big brain or the one for your little brain?

By the way, you should archive your openSUSE mailbox on a monthly basis. That keeps each archive mailbox and the main one pointed to by your filters under a few thousand messages, usually.

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-- David C. Rankin

RRS

Now that's a trick I have got to learn. Can I do it in Thunderbird? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

* Randall R Schulz [02-09-09 15:16]:

If you're asking about automating this process, as far as I know that's not even possible in KMail. It has an expiration mechanism that can move mail to an alternate folder, but that folder is fixed and expiration cannot, to my knowledge, be made to happen on a periodic basis. I just create sub-folders (anywhere from annually to monthly on an as-needed basis) and move old messages into it.

I could probably script my style of archiving it in the shell, but I've never given that a thought.

I have seen such auto/backup/compress scripts on the mutt-users mail list. -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org