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 > >