B wrote:
I am guessing here. Something with multiple instances of bash acessing the history. Are duplicates checked when a bash session is closed?
No, only when adding commands to the history list. It's impractical to check every line in the history file when appending a session's history to it. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/