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Bash history loss when using histappend

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Mar 15, 20269085 views
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Problem

I like to keep a lot of history, so I have set in my . Most of the time everything works fine, with history built up from many shells appending. However, every once and a while, I'll start a new shell and find that I've lost the entire history - and it often only contains some of the commands from …

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histappend

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Fix for: Bash history loss when using histappend

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Sorry to answer my own question, but none of the other answers really address the problem. I've finally figured out that this only happens when closing itself (i.e. file > exit, the 'x' button, alt+F4), and even then generally only when closing seve…

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