On 3/19/12 8:39 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 06:15:35PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> Turn on history with `set -o history' and set HISTFILE and HISTSIZE as you
>> like. You can probably set some of the right variables in .ssh/environment
>> and set BASH_ENV to a file that will run the commands you want.
>
> The problem is, that doesn't actually work.
>
> imadev:~$ ssh localhost bash <<'EOF'
> > set -o history
>> HISTFILE=~/.bash_history
>> HISTFILESIZE=500
>> echo hello world
>> EOF
> wooledg@localhost's password:
> hello world
> imadev:~$ tail -2 .bash_history
> rm statistical.tcl.rej
> less sched.tcl.rej
>
> I blame this part of the documentation, although perhaps I should be
> looking at the code instead:
>
> When an interactive shell exits, the last $HISTSIZE lines
> are copied from the history list to $HISTFILE.
>
> I read that as "the HISTFILE doesn't get updated when a NON-interactive
> shell exits".
The documentation is correct. Whether the code should be changed is a
different discussion. Saving the history to $HISTFILE in any shell where
HISTFILE is set and history is enabled would certainly have made this
easier to solve.
Chet
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