Re: How to enable infinite command history

2012-02-01 Thread suvayu ali
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 18:23, Dennis Williamson dennistwilliam...@gmail.com wrote: I have the same use case. Try one of my logging functions at http://stackoverflow.com/945288/26428 That link doesn't work for me, but I think you meant this question:

Re: How to enable infinite command history

2012-01-31 Thread Ivan Yosifov
On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 20:16 +0200, Pierre Gaston wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Ivan Yosifov iyosi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I got an admittedly basic question but I'm really at my wits' end with this. How do I enable infinite command history ? One simple

Re: How to enable infinite command history

2012-01-31 Thread DJ Mills
with this. How do I enable infinite command history ? One simple suggestion I've seen online is to set HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE to a large number. This is not what I need, I want genuinely unconstrained history file growth. Another idea I've seen is to unset HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE

Re: How to enable infinite command history

2012-01-31 Thread Dennis Williamson
with this. How do I enable infinite command history ? One simple suggestion I've seen online is to set HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE to a large number. This is not what I need, I want genuinely unconstrained history file growth. Another idea I've seen is to unset HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE

How to enable infinite command history

2012-01-30 Thread Ivan Yosifov
Hi everyone, I got an admittedly basic question but I'm really at my wits' end with this. How do I enable infinite command history ? One simple suggestion I've seen online is to set HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE to a large number. This is not what I need, I want genuinely unconstrained history

Re: How to enable infinite command history

2012-01-30 Thread Pierre Gaston
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Ivan Yosifov iyosi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I got an admittedly basic question but I'm really at my wits' end with this. How do I enable infinite command history ? One simple suggestion I've seen online is to set HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE

(low priority) BUG: too large history=nohistory? (was: Re: How to enable infinite command history)

2012-01-30 Thread Linda Walsh
It seems there is a a platform dependent bug somewhere: HISTSIZE=$(((3**15)) echo $HISTSIZE 1000 --- but you have no history... Pierre Gaston wrote: Setting HISTFILESIZE to 2147483647 gives you 68 years of history at one command per seconds (I hope I got my math right) with say