Any Bash features you'd like to see?

[Peter]

On Wed, 11 May 2005, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:

>> 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.

Thanks, I will have to try that out asap. Nice one.

Peter
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