[gentoo-user] Re: bash and keeping history

[Harry Putnam]

Trenton Adams <trenton.d.adams@×××××.com> writes:

> Hi everyone,
>
> There's one thing that has kind of been a little annoying since I started
> using gentoo a few months ago.  That's the fact that when you open multiple
> bash logins, only the history of the last one logged out actually gets
> saved.  Now I know that redhat saves all of them.  Does anyone know how it
> does this?  Is it a patch, a certain scripts, what?
>
> Anyhow, I think gentoo really needs this feature.  It's a little annoying to
> lose all of your history when you've been working in multiple windows.

I'm not really sure what this does but I've used for over a year
thinking it made all shell history buffers get saved to
~/.bash_history.  I've never really tested to see what it does for
sure.

Its a bash built in called histappend that can be put into
.bash_profile like this:

   shopt -s histappend

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