bash history

[Tim Writer]

Lloyd D Budd <lloyd-fEEwcc3XMu8jODpR/OX0VQ at public.gmane.org> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> >From time to time I wonder how 'history' works, and what is the
> mechanism for the many bash sessions making it into '.bash_history'?
> 
> Today, I was reminded of my previous wondering as 'history'  corrupted
> my session's display -- 'reset' resolved.  
> 
> I find the most useful history related command to be:
> 	[Ctrl]+r :: reverse incremental search
> 
> I just now found HISTIGNORE.
> 
> I am aware of bash-completion.  It seems that one could do a lot more
> with this thinking.  Any smart history search/modification tools out
> there? 

The Z shell (zsh) is much better at this sort of stuff than bash.

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