Re: HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE question

2007-12-07 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
2007/12/7, Brad Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > go over the old 500 limit, as the history file can't magically recover > > 500 previously deleted lines. > > This isn't Windoze, you know. :-) > > I should clarify the above. What I mean is, Windows'll tell you > something's gone, even when it is

Re: HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE question

2007-12-07 Thread Brad Rogers
> go over the old 500 limit, as the history file can't magically recover > 500 previously deleted lines. > This isn't Windoze, you know. :-) I should clarify the above. What I mean is, Windows'll tell you something's gone, even when it isn't. In Linux, deleted means deleted. In Winders, it s

Re: HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE question

2007-12-07 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 11:02:49 -0600 "Sergio Cuéllar Valdés" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Sergio, > I closed all my terminals, reopened them, execute . .bashrc without > success. In .bash_history are only 500 lines. > What is wrong ? You need to log out, then back in. Merely shutting down all

HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE question

2007-12-07 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
Hello, I want to increase the number of saved lines in .bash_history. So I added the lines: export HISTSIZE=1000 export HISTFILESIZE=1000 to my .bashrc. But I see no change in the number of lines saved, only 500. I searched for files in /etc that maybe were setting this parameter, but I found n