Limiting history size seems to be implemented inefficiently

Hello, I may be wrong, but from what I see in lib/readline/history.c:stifle_history, every time stored history reaches HISTSIZE limit, the whole array keeping history data is rewritten (by moving each element one index further to make room for new entry. This is quite inefficient. Shouldn't we rat

Re: history -c doesn't reset command counter properly

Oh, nice! That's quite a long time ago, when can I expect this change to be released? I'm not familiar with Bash release lifecycle. Thanks, Janek 2018-03-10 20:56 GMT+01:00 Chet Ramey : > On 3/10/18 8:27 AM, Janek Warchoł wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have noticed

history -c doesn't reset command counter properly

Hello, I have noticed a strange behavior when working with bash "history" command. Every command in history has its index, and I expected that clearing history should reset this index to zero. However, running history -c actually decrements this index by HISTSIZE, so that following commands will n