Package: bash
Version: 3.0-17
For quite a while now Ive noticed a bug in bash failing to save the
history file correctly. I often find that a history of 500 lines simply
isnt enough, so I have edited my .bashrc to set HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE
to 5000. However this does not appear to make any difference, as the
.bash_history file seems limited to 500 lines (actually, 505 lines at
~9k). Even checking that both environment variables are set to 5000.
Are there any instances in the bash source where these values are
hard-coded, or even referenced? This bug has been present for well over a
year, and finally annoyed me enough to report it.
I can help provide any further information necessary to help investigate
this issue, but it seems to be 100% reproducable on several machines I
have, running different versions of bash.
David Murn
David Murn
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