On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 14:19, Roger <rogerx....@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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?
The real question: Why aren't your bash processes automatically writing something to the history file? Mine certainly do, even when using screen, as I have bash configured to do so.
