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. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1340511 Title: man page contains wrong default history size To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash/+bug/1340511/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
