Re: [gentoo-user] Short history in terminal (without X)

[Jakob Buchgraber]

Roman Naumann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> does someone know, how to increase the "history-buffer's size" of the
> terminal? (and I mean the pure terminal, without an X-Server)
> I mean, if I use some commands producing plenty of output, I cannot scroll to
> the beginning of the text quite often, because the history buffer is to
> small.
>
> Another inconvenient thing is that the buffer seems to "forget" everything
> except the last screen of text, if I switch to another terminal. (alt + F2
> for instance).
>
> How can I make the history buffer larger, or - if possible - set it
>  infinitely large. (Just as the "Konsole" of KDE.)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Roman Naumann.
>
To make it "infinitely" large you can set the variable HISTSIZE to some 
huge value like
export HISTSIZE=1000000000000

You could try setting the history to infinitely in Konsole and then do
echo $HISTSIZE

Cheers,
Jay
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