On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Ivan Yosifov <iyosi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I got an admittedly basic question but I'm really at my wits' end with > this. > > How do I enable infinite command history ? > > One simple suggestion I've seen online is to set HISTSIZE and > HISTFILESIZE to a large number. This is not what I need, I want > genuinely unconstrained history file growth. > > Another idea I've seen is to unset HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE. This > doesn't seem to work, the history file is being cropped to the default > of 500 lines. > > I'm probably missing something obvious but any help is appreciated. I'm > running Bash 4.1.5 (Debian Squeeze).
I don't think there is a way. But do you plan to use bash normally? Setting HISTFILESIZE to 2147483647 gives you 68 years of history at one command per seconds (I hope I got my math right) with say 5 chars per commands it's something like 5GB of history.
