On 31/10/12 11:27, Mark Einon wrote:
On 31 October 2012 11:20, scoundrel50agmail <[email protected]> wrote:
No I didnt see anybodys reply.....in the window that is open, if you hit the
up down arrows you can see what you have typed in in that window......you
close it its gone......havent checked ~/.bash_history entered it into the
terminal and it says permission denied....I used to be able to use the up
down arrows when I opened a terminal and find what I had written before.....
Sounds like you don't have the ability to access ~/.bash_history. An
easy fix is to delete this file (as long as there's no important
history you want to keep) :
sudo rm ~/.bash_history
And then try opening a terminal, typing some commands, closing then
re-opening another terminal.
Cheers,
Mark
Yippee that worked, thank you so much, now I found another problem, I
cant use aptitude it says aptitude not found, do I have to install it?
thanks
John
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