Having issues saving the history for the bash game

[jesuscastor]

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I am having issues recording the command history during the bash game. I could not call any commands during the game, and if I exit or finish the game the history command will not show the command input in the game. It will only show the command I used to start the game "bash hw1.sh".

I am leaning more towards finding a way to activate command tracking in interactive shell scripts but I am not sure if there is an easier way to approach this.

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351  bash  hw1.sh
  352  hw1.sh
  353  bash hw1.sh
  354  man set
  355  set | less
  356  set | history
  357  set -o | history
  358  set -o | history | less
  359  jesusac@dcmb-classroom-jesusac:~/BIOINF_575$
  360  clear
  361  history
jesusac@dcmb-classroom-jesusac:~/BIOINF_575$ !302
bash  hw1.sh

--MENU--
Level 1: Test basic comands
Level 2: Test pipe
Level 3: Solving a problem
Level 4: Fun exercise
Level q: Exit

Choose the level (1,2,3,4 or q): q

Bye!
jesusac@dcmb-classroom-jesusac:~/BIOINF_575$ set -o history
jesusac@dcmb-classroom-jesusac:~/BIOINF_575$ !302
bash  hw1.sh

--MENU--
Level 1: Test basic comands
Level 2: Test pipe
Level 3: Solving a problem
Level 4: Fun exercise
Level q: Exit

Choose the level (1,2,3,4 or q): q

Bye!

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![history](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/55095732/65391943-19f8f380-dd3d-11e9-96a9-2de8c5b4e50c.jpg)

# What do you need?
I might need to activate command tracking in interactive shell scripts or expand the history of a line to show the commands used in shell.

# What have you done?
 I've tried calling the command per line (which only triggers the shell script), cutting the set of command lines in the history, and using the set -o command. Some websites recommended this command to activate history recording in shell but further reading illustrated that this command is only meant to turn on and off the history command. 

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[mitreac]

The set -o command and history command should be called in the script to record and display the history. In the files on canvas under the Linux and git folder there is now a hw1_hist.sh script that will display the input you provided in the game to the console after you quit the game and through the game it will save that input in a local_hist.txt file.