Indeed, If I comment out all mentions of HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE in my
.bashrc and .profile I get
$ wc -l .bash_history
500 .bash_history
(after I shorted it to 490 lines and did some activity).
All right, that means we should read our .bashrc carefully.
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> Man page contains the text:
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> HISTSIZE The number of commands to remember in the command history
> (see HISTORY below). The default value is 500.
I think that means that if HISTSIZE isn't set at all, then Bash will act
as though HISTSIZE had been set to 500.
If you have HISTSIZE set, then th
