Hi, reproducible on mac os x 10.6.8 # uname -a Darwin xxxx 10.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun 7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 # bash --version GNU bash, version 4.3.24(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0) Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Graham: could you please send the output of these commands: # cat .bash_history | wc -l # echo $HISTFILESIZE # echo $HISTSIZE it obviously happens when you are almost at the level of $HISTFILESIZE with `cat .bash_history | wc -l`. cheers, pg On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: > On 11/3/14 5:08 PM, Graham Jones wrote: >> These are for: >> bash --version >> GNU bash, version 4.3.30(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin14.0.0) > > This trace looks pretty reasonable. Maybe you could temporarily move your > history file to some other name and see if you can reproduce this behavior > starting fresh with an empty history file. > > Chet > > -- > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer > ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates > Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ >
