Man page contains the text:
HISTSIZE The number of commands to remember in the command history
(see HISTORY below). The default value is 500.
I think that means that if HISTSIZE isn't set at all, then Bash will act
as though HISTSIZE had been set to 500.
If you have HISTSIZE set, then the default doesn't apply.
$ grep HISTFILESIZE ~/.bashrc
HISTFILESIZE=2000
That's HISTFILESIZE, not HISTSIZE. They are different variables, to control
different (albeit related) things.
However, skel.bashrc does also set HISTSIZE, to 1000. But that doesn't
make the manpage wrong. Ubuntu gives new users a HISTSIZE variable, but
it's still the case that a user who removes that will get a default size
of 500.
So I think this is invalid.
** Changed in: bash (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1340511
Title:
man page contains wrong default history size
Status in “bash” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
man page contains wrong default history size
Steps to reproduce:
1.$ man bash
2. Search for HISTSIZE (press /then type HISTSIZE and press
ENTER)
Actual result:
Man page contains the text:
---
HISTSIZE
The number of commands to remember in the command history (see
HISTORY below). The default value is 500.
---
Expected result
The default value is 2000.
Additional information:
$ wc -l ~/.bash_history
2000 /home/user/.bash_history
$ grep HISTFILESIZE ~/.bashrc
HISTFILESIZE=2000
$ apt-get source bash
$ cd bash-4.2/
$ grep -nr HISTFILESIZE .
./debian/skel.bashrc:20:HISTFILESIZE=2000
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: bash 4.2-5ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-19.33-generic 3.11.10.5
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-19-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Jul 11 11:41:58 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-02-18 (143 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 13.10 Saucy Salamander - Beta i386
(20130926)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: bash
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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