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Berkeley Common Environment provides a common Linux computational environment for classwork and research.
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History is not (always) preserved between terminals #27

Closed davclark closed 9 years ago

davclark commented 9 years ago

Have a currently running process, closed a terminal, history was empty. This is easy to reproduce with something like the following as a running process, and click the 'x' on the terminal window:

while [ 0 -lt 1 ] ; do echo 'o crap'; done

Any ideas?

ryanlovett commented 9 years ago

bash is usually configured to save history in one file which gets written when the last bash instance exits. At the SCF we save history into tty-specific files so they all get preserved. I can put that bit of bash config into BCE.

Ryan

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Dav Clark notifications@github.com wrote:

Have a currently running process, closed a terminal, history was empty. This is easy to reproduce with something like the following as a running process, and click the 'x' on the terminal window:

while [ 0 -lt 1 ] ; do echo 'o crap'; done

Any ideas?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/ucberkeley/bce/issues/27.

davclark commented 9 years ago

Rad! On Apr 15, 2015 6:34 PM, "Ryan Lovett" notifications@github.com wrote:

bash is usually configured to save history in one file which gets written when the last bash instance exits. At the SCF we save history into tty-specific files so they all get preserved. I can put that bit of bash config into BCE.

Ryan

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Dav Clark notifications@github.com wrote:

Have a currently running process, closed a terminal, history was empty. This is easy to reproduce with something like the following as a running process, and click the 'x' on the terminal window:

while [ 0 -lt 1 ] ; do echo 'o crap'; done

Any ideas?

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/ucberkeley/bce/issues/27.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/ucberkeley/bce/issues/27#issuecomment-93610527.

ryanlovett commented 9 years ago

Commit 78f9f17 has bash save to ~/.bash_history.d/$n where $n is the number of the tty that bash is running in. It gets written when bash exits.