On Mon, Feb 5, 2024, 18:09 Dale R. Worley <wor...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> 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.
>

there is another HISTFILESIZE var
maybe ..

Dale
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