Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: i386 OS: freebsd6.1 Compiler: cc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i386' -DCONF_OSTYPE='freebsd6.1' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i386-portbld-freebsd6.1' -DCONF_VENDOR='portbld' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/local/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I./include -I./lib -I/usr/local/include -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe uname output: FreeBSD fbsd61 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #30: Mon Jan 1 23:01:34 PST 2007 per...@fbsd61:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/GENERIC i386 Machine Type: i386-portbld-freebsd6.1
Bash Version: 3.1 Patch Level: 10 Release Status: release Description: I'm not sure whether this is a bug, or something that I don't understand. I added these lines to ~/.bashrc: echo this is .bashrc unset HISTFILESIZE and started a new xterm. It did report "this is .bashrc" before giving the first prompt, so I know that it did read the new ~/.bashrc, but it seems that either the "unset HISTFILESIZE" was ignored or something set it to the default value after ~/.bashrc had been read. I then entered ". .bashrc" so that .bashrc would be read again, and this time the unset worked as expected. Should I be using some other method to unset HISTFILESIZE? The xterm shows: this is .bashrc [per...@fbsd61 /usr/home/perryh]$ echo $HISTFILESIZE 500 [per...@fbsd61 /usr/home/perryh]$ . .bashrc this is .bashrc [per...@fbsd61 /usr/home/perryh]$ echo $HISTFILESIZE [per...@fbsd61 /usr/home/perryh]$ bash --version GNU bash, version 3.1.10(1)-release (i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
