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How to prevent Bash from altering history?

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Mar 15, 20262133 views
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If I press the Up or Down arrows on my keyboard and then modify something from my history, it's changed forever. Even if I press Ctrl-C and then try to bring it up again, it's still changed -- I've lost that entry in my history. How can I prevent this from happening?

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You want the readline setting: You can either put it in (see note below), or put in your . Demo: Further details are in the Bash manpage: If set to ‘ ’, Readline will undo all changes to history lines before returning when accept-line is executed. B…

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