> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 08:36:07AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: >On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 11:23:48PM -0800, Roger wrote: >> When using GNU Screen (or other terminal multiplexer), I noticed the terminal >> multiplexer never gives each bash shell opened, a chance to write the history >> file on exit. >> >> The usual result after an initial install for several months, the history >> file will >> remain practically empty. > >That's got nothing to do with screen. Any long-lived terminal will >have the same behavior. If you want to write to the history file, you >can do so at any time: > >$ help history >... > -a append history lines from this session to the history file
However, on regular bash exit or logout, isn't history synced (or appended) at that time automatically? -- Roger http://rogerx.freeshell.org/
