Casey Johnson <stry...@hotmail.com> writes: > In a clean shell, execute: > HISTFILE=alt-history.txt > HISTSIZE=150000 > history -r > and then observe how long the last command runs before returning.
Though I expect that when you exit bash, the history file gets trimmed to 150,000 lines, and then the "over 10 seconds to load" doesn't happen again. Dale