This is discussed a bit here, along with a common pain point for tmux/screen users:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10164053 zsh gets around both issues with a variety of options to have a synchronous and interleaved history file. -Jonathan Hankins On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 1:40 PM Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 03:31:57AM +0800, ????????? Dan Jacobson wrote: > > GW> Log out, log back in as root, issue the command, and accept that > root's > > GW> (very short) shell history will be lost. > > > > Well mention that on the man page. > > I.e., the man page should address the paradox of saving a complete > > history vs. being able to turn off one's computer. > > I do not believe that it is bash(1)'s job to teach basic Unix system > administration. > > -- This e-mail is intended only for the recipient and may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, the review, distribution, duplication or retention of this message and its attachments is prohibited. Please notify the sender of this error immediately by reply e-mail, and permanently delete this message and its attachments in any form in which they may have been preserved.
