Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3261 mails)

["Alan Lenton" <alan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The variable you want is called HISTSIZE. It's default is 500 commands -
probably a bit excessive for most people :)

You can get details of a single variable with the command

echo "$variable-name"

for example on my machine

fogg $ echo "$HISTSIZE"
500
fogg $

You can get a list of variables and their values by just typing 'set'. On my
machine ther are over 80 of them, so I'd advise using

set | less

Alan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Wilson" <wilson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 12:57 AM
Subject: [SLE] How to set the history length in bash?


| Anyone know how to increase bash's history length? I've done it before, I
think it's a variable, but I can't figure it out today.
|
| Also, how do you show all of your shell variables? I know it can be done but
I forget the command.
|
| ----------------------------------------------------
| Jonathan Wilson
| System Administrator

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