It seems there is a a platform dependent bug somewhere:
> HISTSIZE=$(((3**15)) echo $HISTSIZE 1000000000000000 --- but you have no history... Pierre Gaston wrote:
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.