Bash logging from multiple terminals

Khannie

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?

leeroybrown

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.

Khannie

Nice one. Cheers. It was off.

Syth

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

Khannie

ROFL

Target audience: people who type things in Linux

Thanks syth.