Hello, I have the following lines on my login script, intended to make my history big enough for me, and not to waste space by keeping several copies of the same command again anda again:
HISTCONTROL='ignoreboth:erasedups' HISTSIZE=4096 HISTFILESIZE=4096 To make sure it is working as that, I do (where "$" is shell prompt): $set | grep HIST This outputs: HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth:erasedups HISTFILE=/path/to/my/.bash_history HISTFILESIZE=4096 HISTSIZE=4096 Part of my history is, righ now: 522 cd /var/tmp/; touch z 523 cd /var/tmp/; touch z 524 ll 525 ssh zabu 526 ssh ximi 527 ls 528 ssh zabu 529 ssh ximi 530 gprolog 531 GLOBALZS=100000 532 gprolog --q="[test]" 533 gprolog --q "[test]" 534 gprolog --q "[tp]" 535 ssh ximi As you see, there are several repeated lines. Many of them are commands I use constantly. I started with a clean history. But even if not, the duplicates should have been erased, as I understood from the manual page? I suspect that, if I am not making any stupid mistakes, is it because I use to keep several shells opened at once. I open and close them in a semi-chaotic fashion. Do you sugest anything, or is this really a bug? Also, you may give me some advice on how to reproduce the bug, if what I told isn't that usefull for finding the problem. Bashbug script didn't work for me. I think it couldn't find vim on the right place. I tried making a copy of the script and changing the path on the file (wich I thought to be trivial), but there is no "vim" written in there either, so I gave up. o:) Kindly, B
