On 6/9/15 7:42 PM, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> At least in bash 4.3, the documentation for history -a says:
>
> Append the new history lines (history lines entered since the
> beginning of the current Bash session) to the history file.
>
> This is unfortunately misleading, since it suggests that the technique of
> adding "history -a" to one's PROMPT_COMMAND, as suggested here:
>
> http://heyrod.com/snippet/s/always-append-bash-history.html
Thanks for the report. I will clarify the text.
Chet
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