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Re: Issue with history

Thanks for your answer.
FYI: 
$ type history
history is a shell builtin

What further information can I provide you?

--
François

Le 8 mars 2012 à 19:28, Bart Schaefer a écrit :

> On Mar 8,  5:41pm, François wrote:
> }
> } I couldn't retrieve all the entries from my history file.
> } 
> } $ history  # would only produce something like 30 entries
> 
> The doc:
> 
> history
>     Same as fc -l.
> 
> fc -l [ -nrdfEiD ] [ -t TIMEFMT ] [ -m MATCH ] [ OLD=NEW ... ] [ FIRST [ LAST ] ]
>     If FIRST is not specified, it will be set to -1 (the most recent
>     event), or to -16 if the -l flag is given.  If LAST is not
>     specified, it will be set to FIRST, or to -1 if the -l flag is
>     given.
> 
> So by default "history" lists only 16 lines of commands.  If you get more
> than 16, you must already have an alias or function named "history" that
> is passing some other values.  Given that you have an alias/function, it
> isn't possible to determine what "history 1" means for you.
> 
> -- 
> Barton E. Schaefer
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