Am 11.01.19 um 11:46 schrieb Ralph Corderoy:
Hi Peter,
Does it gain new lines at the bottom as you enter commands in a
terminal? Or only when the terminal exits? Do those lines include
test ones that you've deleted?
Yes, thank You, Ralph. Indeed, I forgot about that, as I'm usually not
changing that. IMHO it's nevertheless a bad concept those removed
commands are still stored inside this file. In my case, the problem
was my sudo password, which I accidently typed in because sudo timeout
had not yet been reached.
If I open a terminal for a new bash and enter
echo 1
echo 2
echo 3
and then `history -d ...' so `history' shows `echo 2' is missing and
there's a gap in the history numbering, the .bash_history written when I
exit bash does *not* include the deleted `echo 2' line.
So either you didn't delete your password line(s), or something else is
going on and my tests above were probing what. :-)
Hm, I guess it's because it has been saved once (by closing the tab) and
later removals in newly created tabs didn't change the backup
"database", or I just did something else and just cannot remember
because I've been in panic (though it's my private laptop and nobody
else usually has access to it, but I'll never know if there's some spy
virus looking for root access, so password should never be stored
anywhere in clear text).
P.
