I would like to retain my bash history for... well pretty much forever.

does anyone see any problem with:

# chattr +a ~/.bash_history

as a solution?


thanks.

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bob the builder <ewaguespack@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to retain my bash history for... well pretty much forever.
> does anyone see any problem with:
> # chattr +a ~/.bash_history
> as a solution?

Dunno, but you could try it and see.  Seems a little kludgy to me.
What if you just unset HISTFILESIZE?  As the man page says, "After
saving the history, the history file is truncated to contain no  more
than  HISTFILESIZE  lines.  If HISTFILESIZE is not set, no truncation is
performed."

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