Lloyd D Budd <lloyd-fEEwcc3XMu8jODpR/OX0VQ at public.gmane.org> writes:

Hi,

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From time to time I wonder how 'history' works, and what is the mechanism for the many bash sessions making it into '.bash_history'?

Today, I was reminded of my previous wondering as 'history' corrupted my session's display -- 'reset' resolved.

I find the most useful history related command to be: [Ctrl]+r :: reverse incremental search

I just now found HISTIGNORE.

I am aware of bash-completion. It seems that one could do a lot more with this thinking. Any smart history search/modification tools out there?

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