Re: Bash history weirdness

2009-10-04 Thread John
On 3 Oct 2009 at 20:19, Wanna-Be Sys Admin wrote: > John wrote: >> If I do "history -w" then it writes the current history to >> ~/.bash_history as expected. >> >> But if I do "history -a" then ~/.bash_history doesn't get changed, and >> from the modification time it hasn't been touched at all. >

Re: Bash history weirdness

2009-10-04 Thread Chet Ramey
John wrote: > Hi, > > Bash's history command is behaving oddly. > > If I do "history -w" then it writes the current history to > ~/.bash_history as expected. > > But if I do "history -a" then ~/.bash_history doesn't get changed, and > from the modification time it hasn't been touched at all. Lo

Bash history weirdness

2009-10-03 Thread John
Hi, Bash's history command is behaving oddly. If I do "history -w" then it writes the current history to ~/.bash_history as expected. But if I do "history -a" then ~/.bash_history doesn't get changed, and from the modification time it hasn't been touched at all. Any ideas for what might be caus