Re: How to enable infinite command history

2012-02-01 Thread lina
You mean the bash history fliter, can flit away those repeated more than twice and those cd .. and something basic.

Re: How to enable infinite command history

2012-02-01 Thread suvayu ali
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 18:23, Dennis Williamson wrote: > I have the same use case. Try one of my logging functions at > http://stackoverflow.com/945288/26428 That link doesn't work for me, but I think you meant this question:

Re: How to enable infinite command history

2012-01-31 Thread Dennis Williamson
On Jan 31, 2012 11:08 AM, "Ivan Yosifov" wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 20:16 +0200, Pierre Gaston wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Ivan Yosifov wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > I got an admittedly basic question but I'm really at my wits' end with > > > this. > > > > > > How do

Re: How to enable infinite command history

2012-01-31 Thread DJ Mills
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Ivan Yosifov wrote: > On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 20:16 +0200, Pierre Gaston wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Ivan Yosifov wrote: >> > Hi everyone, >> > >> > I got an admittedly basic question but I'm really at my wits' end with >> > this. >> > >> > How do I

Re: How to enable infinite command history

2012-01-31 Thread Ivan Yosifov
On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 20:16 +0200, Pierre Gaston wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Ivan Yosifov wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I got an admittedly basic question but I'm really at my wits' end with > > this. > > > > How do I enable infinite command history ? > > > > One simple suggestion

(low priority) BUG: too large history=nohistory? (was: Re: How to enable infinite command history)

2012-01-30 Thread Linda Walsh
It seems there is a a platform dependent bug somewhere: > HISTSIZE=$(((3**15)) echo $HISTSIZE 1000 --- but you have no history... Pierre Gaston wrote: Setting HISTFILESIZE to 2147483647 gives you 68 years of history at one command per seconds (I hope I got my math right) with say

Re: How to enable infinite command history

2012-01-30 Thread Pierre Gaston
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Ivan Yosifov wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I got an admittedly basic question but I'm really at my wits' end with > this. > > How do I enable infinite command history ? > > One simple suggestion I've seen online is to set HISTSIZE and > HISTFILESIZE to a large number.

How to enable infinite command history

2012-01-30 Thread Ivan Yosifov
Hi everyone, I got an admittedly basic question but I'm really at my wits' end with this. How do I enable infinite command history ? One simple suggestion I've seen online is to set HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE to a large number. This is not what I need, I want genuinely unconstrained history fil