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Bash logging from multiple terminals

Khannie · 2006-08-22 11:10:50

This is for my own benefit...I sometimes come up with genius commands that I completely forget later (I'm very inventive, but very forgetful :D)....what I'd like to do is have every command from every bash shell appended to the .bash_history (or any file in fact). ATM, it's a bit hit and miss if I have more than one…

22-08-2006 11:10am

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Khannie

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This is for my own benefit...I sometimes come up with genius commands that I completely forget later (I'm very inventive, but very forgetful )....what I'd like to do is have every command from every bash shell appended to the .bash_history (or any file in fact). ATM, it's a bit hit and miss if I have more than one terminal open....some go in....some don't.

Suggestions?

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#2 22-08-2006 12:38pm
leeroybrown

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Check if the 'histappend' shell option is enabled:
shopt histappend

If not you can set it as follows:
shopt -s histappend

This shell option controls whether the history file is overwiritten or appended to when a shell exits.

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#3 22-08-2006 3:32pm

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Nice one. Cheers. It was off.

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#4 29-08-2006 9:45pm

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You can also have bash append the command to the HISTFILE after the command was entered, as opposed to when you log out.

This is an interesting power-bash guide

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#5 30-08-2006 11:26am

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ROFL

Target audience: people who type things in Linux

Thanks syth.

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