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Re: [4.0.2 bug] commands not written to history
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- From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Subject: Re: [4.0.2 bug] commands not written to history
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 14:43:17 +0200
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On 12 Jul, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hrm. Just because there's an entry in $HISTFILE doesn't mean that it's
> present in the shell history, of course. With INC_APPEND_HISTORY set
> (as I believe you have), $HISTFILE may have up to $[SAVEHIST/5] extra
> commands stored in it. (This is to avoid having to rewrite the entire
> file too frequently.) But only $HISTSIZE of those commands is actually
> in memory (and thus searchable) at any given time.
But this wasn't the problem, as the history contained about 100 lines
(it was just after I used a new history file), and $HISTSIZE is 2000
here.
> Next time you see this happen, try running `fc -W temphistfile' and then
> `diff $HISTFILE temphistfile'. You should see differences only at the
> beginning and possibly one or two commands at the end, not in the middle.
> If there are commands missing (or misordered) in the middle, then we'll
> have evidence of a real bug.
greux:~[Failed 130]> fc -W temphistfile <14:30:51
greux:~> diff $HISTFILE temphistfile <14:35:11
112c112
< : 994936533:0;mail
---
> : 994937129:867;mail
116,120c116,119
< : 994939941:0;m $HISTFILE
< : 994939999:0;mail
< : 994940004:0;m $HISTFILE
< : 994940081:0;mail
< : 994940743:0;rem
---
> : 994939966:13;m $HISTFILE
> : 994939999:2;mail
> : 994940004:8;m $HISTFILE
> : 994940743:308;rem
122d120
< : 994941319:0;diff $HISTFILE temphistfile
Is it normal?
It seems that a "mail" command has disappeared from the history file.
> } It seems to be due to the fact that the time stamps are not in the
> } increasing order.
> Can you show an example of this, please?
This can be done by manually copying commands to the history file
(useful when starting with a new history file...). But even without
doing that:
[...]
: 994850317:0;emacs cshrc.loria
: 994850342:0;rl lepois
: 994850341:0;locale
[...]
But this is because host lepois wasn't synchronized, so a very special
case.
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