On 3/25/15 2:07 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Hey. > > When HISTTIMEFORMAT is used the history time comment lines are written > to HISTFILE. > Therefore, HISTFILESIZE is effectively only half as large. > > Would it be possible to simply not count the history time comment lines > when enforcing HISTFILESIZE?
The history file truncation code already skips lines that look like history timestamps. Look at history.c:history_truncate_file(). -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/