Comments on Cuberick: Update Bash History in Realtime

Good one Zak. Thanks

2010-10-12T20:00:31.297-07:00

Good one Zak. Thanks

if you actually do want to mix history between ter...

2010-09-30T12:02:44.142-07:00

if you actually do want to mix history between terminals (as is my preference), I humbly suggest:

export PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a; history -n; $PROMPT_COMMAND"

Jessy, you should also check out http://shellsink....

2009-03-24T15:39:00.000-07:00

Jessy, you should also check out http://shellsink.com which is an open source tool for aggregating your shell history to a server. I wrote it up here http://www.cuberick.com/2009/02/bash-history-in-cloud.html

awesome! thanks so much, this has always driven me...

2009-03-21T13:07:00.000-07:00

awesome! thanks so much, this has always driven me nuts as well.

Thanks for the correction/clarification -- I will ...

2008-11-23T20:13:00.000-08:00

Thanks for the correction/clarification -- I will probably go ahead and try it then -- my apologies for not following (or trying it before I opened my mouth).

-t

Ted, the change I suggest doesn't affect the indep...

2008-11-23T20:07:00.000-08:00

Ted, the change I suggest doesn't affect the independence of your sessions as you suggest. Each shell maintains a unique history in memory so modifying the history file has no affect on running terminals. The only time the history file is read is when you start a new terminal. I recommend you try my suggestion. Really, all I am doing is eliminating the race condition that causes the bash history file to have inconsistent data.

Thanks for the feedback.

I dunno if I agree with your conclusion about what...

2008-11-22T11:06:00.000-08:00

I dunno if I agree with your conclusion about what the proper behavior should be -- if you save all commands, across terminal sessions, you're kinda taking away the point of having multiple terminal sessions, to some extent -- i.e. having independent and isolated working environments. Would you advocate having all environmental variables shared and instantly updated across shells too?

I mean, don't get me wrong, if it works for you, great, but I think you'd find a number of people objecting to your system if it were made a default for anyone else's experience.

Thanks!

2008-11-16T16:32:00.000-08:00

Thanks!