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airjordan17 is offline airjordan17
2009-12-14 , 22:09
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As for this:

Originally Posted by Bratag View Post
Chances are your history is set to a small number and its only saving the last 10 commands or so - you can tweak that in your profile.
The default appears to be 15 lines of history, as that is the largest my .ash_history file gets. What should I add to my .profile (or .ashrc) to change the lines of history stored? I tried setting HISTSIZE=100 in .profile but that doesn't seem to do it.

I noticed that $HISTFILE is set to /home/user/.ash_history, but $HISTSIZE is not initialized by default. Is it a different variable in ash?
 

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josh is offline josh
2009-12-16 , 00:41
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I can confirm that ash only saves 15 lines of history. This still proves useful, but given 2GB of space for /home, I'd rather store a few thousand.

I looked into it, and it seems that this gets set at compile time, not runtime. As far as I can tell, no means exists to set this at runtime. Thus, I've filed bug 7014, asking for this limit to increase or become dynamic.
 

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