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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Shopt -s histappend Post 303037015 by cokedude on Saturday 20th of July 2019 05:10:47 PM
Old 07-20-2019
Shopt -s histappend

What is the point of this? Whenever I close my shell it appends to the history file without adding this. I have never seen it overwrite my history file.

Code:
# When the shell exits, append to the history file instead of overwriting it
shopt -s histappend

 

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