Any Bash features you'd like to see?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 05:56:54PM +0300, Peter wrote:
> The purpose of having a log is to be able to backtrack. That implies 
> order is important. One could have a record format similar to the log 
> file entries a la '${time}(${pid}): line \n' but the writes must be done 
> line-locked or they will be interspersed with output from other shells.

I never considered the bash history to be a log, just a great source of
previous command lines.

If it was a log, I would expect it to not keep loosing information when
multiple shells are running, hence it is not a log.  A log feature could
be useful though.

Lennart Sorensen
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