Any Bash features you'd like to see?

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Wed, 11 May 2005, Peter wrote:
> On Wed, 11 May 2005, David Thornton wrote:
>
>>  who typed what , when ( and where).
>
> Oh, that's a good one. One thing that I would really like is to have 
> ..bash_history log commands from *all* open shells for a given user. I often 
> have 4-8 shells open and the history does not reflect what I was doing in all 
> of them. The easiest way would be for bash to stat and count the links to 
> bash_history on startup. If >1 open another bash_history and write to it 
> instead.

    In .bashrc, put:

PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a' ## All shells will write to the default file

    Or:

HISTFILE=$HOME/.bash_history.$$   ## New file for each shell

    There are many possible variations on this theme.

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