Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 23:18:34 +0530 From: "manish jain" <unxfbsdi@gmail.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Incorrect commandline history with bash Message-ID: <71a1c60e0809201048s168fe713j3ec661eeb93f4492@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, I just migrated from Linux and I am now using FreeBSD 6.3. My keyboard layout is US-ISO and my TERM is con25. I am using bash#3 as my login shell. (I installed the bash package from the distribution media, not from /usr/ports). The problem is that bash does not remember my commands correctly. Almost all commands I enter in a login session are forgotten in the next session. Using the Up and Down arrow keys navigates a mangled and incomlete command history. Even using Ctrl-r for a reverse find almost never fetches a command I had actually typed in previously. The following are the contents of my .bash_profile and .bashrc: #.bash_profile : [ -f ~/.bashrc ] && source ~/.bashrc #end-of-file #.bashrc : export HISTFILESIZE=200 shopt -s cmdhist shopt -s histappend #end-of-file If anyone can help me to get bash remembering my command history correctly, I will be grateful. Thanks unxfbsdi@gmail.com
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