On 12/15/15 11:37 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>> You just need to enable history (set -o history). History is independent
>> of whether or not the shell is interactive; it's just enabled by default
>> in interactive shells.
>
> doing a "set -o history" didn't work for me, only when i added a "history
> -a" eg:
$ cat x19
#!/bin/bash
rm -f /tmp/history # make sure it's not there
set -o history
HISTFILE="/tmp/history"
HISTSIZE="1000"
printf 'something\n'
$ ../bash-4.3-patched/bash ./x19
something
$ ls -l /tmp/history
-rw------- 1 chet wheel 61 Dec 15 11:48 /tmp/history
$ cat /tmp/history
HISTFILE="/tmp/history"
HISTSIZE="1000"
printf 'something\n'
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