On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 15:56, Slevin McGuigan <slevin.mcgui...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I am unsure whether or not this a bug.
>From what I can tell, it's not so much a bug as it is an inadequacy: When you quit bash, the history is stored very naively in "$HISTFILE"; the history is simply dumped to it line-by-line, and each line of the file is later interpreted by a new bash instance as a complete command line input. Hence, the multi-line nature of your command input is lost between dumping it to "$HISTFILE" and later populating the history from "$HISTFILE". The solution would be to invent a more robust file format for "$HISTFILE".
