In the version I was using a line that began with # and perhaps a timestamp separated each entry of the history in a way that in principle preserved information about the entry boundary even though this information is not used by bash on the subsequent start.
jon. On 06/02/2011, at 11:24, Michael Witten <mfwit...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 18:02, Jon Seymour <jon.seym...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The version I tried on Linux 3.2.25 does have a .bash_history >> format that could support it, but it still behaved the same way. > > How do you mean? > > I'm running bash version "4.1.9(2)-release" on GNU/Linux, and the > resulting history file doesn't seem like it's storing anything more > than lines of text naively dumped from the multi-line example.
