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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting [ksh] how to reload history file without entering a command Post 303027894 by DevuanFan on Thursday 27th of December 2018 10:36:17 PM
Old 12-27-2018
Thank you, Jim, that is a useful alias but not what I'm looking for. I'll try to explain it differently:

When I'm working, I often have multiple terminal emulators open at once. If I pick any one of them and start pressing the up and down arrows, I don't see the commands recently run in the other open terminals. I'm looking for something to put in ~/.kshrc that will cause terminals to re-parse/reload my HISTFILE just by pressing Enter at a command prompt (without having to type anything at the prompt). This way, whenever I am jumping between terminals, when I pick a random one I can simply press Enter and then pressing the up and down arrows show me all the commands in my HISTFILE.

Hope that's more clear.

-- Post updated at 03:36 AM ---

Perhaps most succinctly: Is there a command that flushes korn shell's history buffer and replaces it with contents of HISTFILE?
 

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