On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 09:00:15PM +0100, Martin Baehr wrote: > > If the intended purpose were logging (which implies auditing), then you > > wouldn't want to delete commands from the history. This currently > > happens in the fact that duplicate commands are elided from the history > > even if they weren't successive commands. > > well, i consider it as a log of any command i ever typed, so that i do > not need to remember the command but i can just search it. especially > for some more complex commands that i run on a semi regular basis. > but just like logs are rotated once in a while, it would be ok to > clean out really old commands.
I originally had typed that the items are deleted from the history because of duplicate commands and because it's a ring buffer, because I did expect that only a certain number of commands were kept. After a quick glance at the actual code it doesn't seem that is the case. I may be wrong, though, since I didn't spend too much time looking over it. > it is just my extended memory. the history list is small enough that i > would not want it to fall victim to any cache cleaning operations. I don't know of anything that automatically cleans ~/.cache (like is commonly done with /tmp). I think the intended purpose for such segregation is so that you can do things like telling your backup program "ignore ~/.cache". Whether or not my interpretation of its use aligns with reality is up for debate. :) -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[email protected]>
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