On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 07:00:11PM -0600, gaze...@xmission.com wrote: [...] > Bash Version: 4.3 > Patch Level: 48 > Release Status: release > > Description: > Multiline commands (i.e., a command with embedded newlines) do not > survive > intact when written out to the history file and then reloaded.
Have you tried bash 4.4? See: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2015-12/msg00202.html dualbus@debian:~$ history -c dualbus@debian:~$ declare -p HISTFILE HISTTIMEFORMAT declare -- HISTFILE="/tmp/zzz" declare -- HISTTIMEFORMAT="%s" dualbus@debian:~$ echo 'a > b > c' a b c dualbus@debian:~$ history -w dualbus@debian:~$ history -c; history -r; HISTTIMEFORMAT= history 1 declare -p HISTFILE HISTTIMEFORMAT 2 echo 'a b c' 3 history -w -- Eduardo Bustamante https://dualbus.me/
