On 11 January 2016 at 14:22, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: > For a history file without any timestamps, using > the current default and setting the history entry timestamp to the current > time is more appropriate. >
Why is that? The only similar thing I can think of is file systems, where if you zero the metadata you get timestamps of the epoch, not the current time. > You probably also have histappend set or didn't use something like > `history -w' to force the entire history file to be written when the shell > exits. > That's right. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org
