Any Bash features you'd like to see?

[David Thornton]

William Park wrote:

>On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 11:20:26PM +0300, Peter wrote:
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>>On Wed, 11 May 2005, David Thornton wrote:
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>>>who typed what , when ( and where).
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>>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.
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>I guess you could use '.bash_history.pid' instead of just
>'.bash_history'.  Mind you, .bash_history is only written on exit.  So,
>what's wrong with using shell's internal history buffer?
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I want to be able to archive 7 years worth of keystrokes.

It's not important to me to sort command histories by shell.

Timestamping the command would be a must.

david

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