<[email protected]> wrote: ... > Definitely. I just pointed that out as a request for discussion. > Perhaps this isn't portable across shells or even different > versions of bash. So caveat emptor :) > > Cheers and thanks -- I didn't know about HISTTIMEFORMAT before!
just as an aside for those who think about this sort of thing. :) i like to start with a known state including the shell history so upon starting up a terminal i determine what commands i want in the history by detecting which directory i'm in (which tells me which project i'm working on). it's very easy then for me to start things by using the !<number> or !<abbrv>. i also do not like history stuff hanging around so i may attempt to clear things out upon logging out or shutting down but since some crashes can happen i do not rely upon that being 100%. which is why when i do start up i set things up how i like and do clear the history at that point (before putting the commands in i want). songbird
