On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Benj wrote:
> > hello. how can i return back the 'doskey' capability of bash upon login?
> > that feature suddenly disappeared on my newly installed redhat 7.2. all my
> > commands from my last sessions can't be recalled by the up arrow, but recent
> > commands in the current session they can be recalled. the .bash_history
> > contains the commands, however.
>
check two things:
1) .bash_history file must be 0wned by you. =)
2) HISTFILE must be pointing to that .bash_history file like:
export HISTFILE=/home/you/.bash_history
pong
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