On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: > I still can't reproduce it on OS X 10.10: [..]
not only I cannot reproduce it at the moment, but also I have reached the following state (user: root): # cat .bash_history ls -al #1415144153 ls -al .bash_history #1415144154 pwd #1415144159 rm .bash_history #1415144161 cd #1415144163 pwd #1415144165 rm .bash_history #1415144171 i=0; while [ $i -lt 64 ]; do history -a; history -n; let i++; done; # ls -alh .bash_history -rw------- 1 root wheel 9.0M Nov 5 22:59 .bash_history # du -sh .bash_history 9.0M .bash_history # hexdump -C .bash_history 00000000 6c 73 20 2d 61 6c 20 0a 23 31 34 31 35 31 34 34 |ls -al .#1415144| 00000010 31 35 33 0a 6c 73 20 2d 61 6c 20 2e 62 61 73 68 |153.ls -al .bash| 00000020 5f 68 69 73 74 6f 72 79 20 0a 23 31 34 31 35 31 |_history .#14151| 00000030 34 34 31 35 34 0a 70 77 64 0a 23 31 34 31 35 31 |44154.pwd.#14151| 00000040 34 34 31 35 39 0a 72 6d 20 2e 62 61 73 68 5f 68 |44159.rm .bash_h| 00000050 69 73 74 6f 72 79 20 0a 23 31 34 31 35 31 34 34 |istory .#1415144| 00000060 31 36 31 0a 63 64 0a 23 31 34 31 35 31 34 34 31 |161.cd.#14151441| 00000070 36 33 0a 70 77 64 0a 23 31 34 31 35 31 34 34 31 |63.pwd.#14151441| 00000080 36 35 0a 72 6d 20 2e 62 61 73 68 5f 68 69 73 74 |65.rm .bash_hist| 00000090 6f 72 79 20 0a 23 31 34 31 35 31 34 34 31 37 31 |ory .#1415144171| 000000a0 0a 69 3d 30 3b 20 77 68 69 6c 65 20 5b 20 24 69 |.i=0; while [ $i| 000000b0 20 2d 6c 74 20 36 34 20 5d 3b 20 64 6f 20 68 69 | -lt 64 ]; do hi| 000000c0 73 74 6f 72 79 20 2d 61 3b 20 68 69 73 74 6f 72 |story -a; histor| 000000d0 79 20 2d 6e 3b 20 6c 65 74 20 69 2b 2b 3b 20 64 |y -n; let i++; d| 000000e0 6f 6e 65 3b 0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |one;............| 000000f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| * 00902b60 which puzzles me a bit. Now I lost even all my while-loop commands! :) Graham: did you actually logout and removed the history file, and therefore started fresh? Sorry I guess I lost track of what is going on here. cheers, pg