alt Hacker NewsThat's a bug? Happens to me with bash all the time, all I have to do is open 2 terminals at the same time... whichever one I close last is the one that writes its history. /shrug
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mmh0000 • today at 3:57 AM
This is exactly why I stopped using Bash around 2012. I was soooo tired of losing random shell history.
If you haven't looked into ZSH, it has some really nice customizations. Notably, from my config[1]:
# Remove dups
setopt HIST_FIND_NO_DUPS
setopt HIST_IGNORE_DUPS
# Don't log commands starting with a space
setopt HIST_IGNORE_SPACE
# Replcae bang-command !34 with the actual command in the history
setopt BANG_HIST
# Remove extraneous spaces
setopt HIST_REDUCE_BLANKS
# Write the history file in the ":start:elapsed;command" format
setopt EXTENDED_HISTORY
# Record run-time of the command
setopt INC_APPEND_HISTORY_TIME
valleyer • today at 3:43 AM
That's what zsh's INC_APPEND_HISTORY (mentioned in TFA) avoids. Bash may have an equivalent.
Running bash inside zsh continuously destroyed my history for the last 3 years until I figured that HISTFILE was exported and inherited by bash.