On 06/11/13 20:23, Alan Jenkins wrote:
There is no problem with keeping a lengthy history per se, just sometimes those commands are often variations on the same thing in which case you may be better off creating scripts and aliases to save yourself time and effort. Always seek quicker and easier ways to do things as it makes your life easier and means you can spend the saved time working on other cool things or having fun.
Just as a follow up as I don;t think I actually noticed a reply explaining where the limit is configured...
nano ~/.bashrc # for setting history length see HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE in bash(1) HISTSIZE=1000 HISTFILESIZE=2000 Cheers Al -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
