“I have [bash] history back to ~2003”
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Re: “I have [bash] history back to ~2003”
#2I guess the downside of this is that ctrl+r would only search the current day's history? Personally I at least increased the history kept with HISTFILESIZE=500000 and HISTSIZE=5000
Re: “I have [bash] history back to ~2003”
#3I guess the downside of this is that ctrl+r would only search the current day's history? Personally I at least increased the history kept with HISTFILESIZE=500000 and HISTSIZE=5000
Another issue is that it looks like would start a new history file only when a new shell is started. Some people log in fresh every day, but I've got terminal windows on my home machine that have been sitting around for many months...
I guess you'd have to set the history-size etc large enough to hopefully last for the maximum expected shell run-time.
EDIT: hmm, the man page says you can just unset HISTFILESIZE or set it to a non-numeric/negative value to avoid truncating the history file at all.
Re: “I have [bash] history back to ~2003”
#4Great resource for hackers if they someday get access to your account.. but I guess you will have bigger problems than.
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#5This guy is the inverse of me, because I have linked my .bash_history to /dev/null
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#6yeah i wonder how many passwords are stored in there in free text format
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#7Great resource for hackers if they someday get access to your account.. but I guess you will have bigger problems than.
Yeah, I think they can do more harm with .ssh/id_rsa than with .history.
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#8I recently set up my bash history to collect into an sqlite database. Besides the exact command it records the working directory, return value, starting time, ending time, a shell and a login session id. It doesn't handle background jobs well right now though.
Re: “I have [bash] history back to ~2003”
#9I recently set up my bash history to collect into an sqlite database. Besides the exact command it records the working directory, return value, starting time, ending time, a shell and a login session id. It doesn't handle background jobs well right now though.
Okay I'm curious as to why? I mean it's nice to have, but what are you going to do with the additional data later on?
Re: “I have [bash] history back to ~2003”
#10I guess the downside of this is that ctrl+r would only search the current day's history? Personally I at least increased the history kept with HISTFILESIZE=500000 and HISTSIZE=5000
There is another reply defining histgrep() function. Maybe ctrl+r could be assigned somehow.