On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 06:52:23AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:

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> There's one thing I don't understand - erasure of previous history.
>  https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/088 states it as:
> >... it overwrites the existing history with the new version.

That's because it reads the history file at start. Concatenation
happens, so to speak, in bash's belly.

Cheers
-- t

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