I found in ~/.bashrc # for setting history length see HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE in bash(1) HISTSIZE=1000 HISTFILESIZE=2000
Leaving this part alone, the result of history was also the same. That was not the case in wheezy. I've edited ~/.bashrc, so now $ cat ~/.bashrc ==omitting== HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth ==omitting== #HISTSIZE=1000 #HISTFILESIZE=2000 ==omitting== HISTSIZE=-1 HISTFILESIZE=-1 HISTCONTROL=ignoredups $ echo $BASH_VERSION 4.3.30(1)-release And after entering a few commands(though they are meaningless), $ history ==omitting== 2004 a 2005 b 2006 c 2007 d 2008 e 2009 exit 2010 history The number of history surpasses 2000 now. Thanks, tomas and real bas. EenyMeenyMinyMoa 2016-02-25 3:24 GMT+08:00, real bas <realba...@gmail.com>: > With bash version 3 you can set to infinity the history size and size of > history file of terminal > edit file ~/.bashrc > change HISTSIZE=1000 to HISTSIZE=-1 //history size of terminal > change HISTFILESIZE=2000 to HISTFILESIZE=-1 //size of history file > > > 2016-02-24 8:19 GMT-04:00 <to...@tuxteam.de>: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 08:16:01PM +0800, EenyMeenyMinyMoa wrote: >> > Hi, >> > I want to increase the number of bash history. >> > >> > $ history >> > ==omitting== >> > 1996 history >> > >> > After entering commands more than ten times, >> > I relaunched the terminal to see >> > >> > $ history >> > ==omitting== >> > 1996 history >> > >> > I've added the following lines to /home/eeny/.bashrc about a year ago. >> > >> > HISTSIZE=77700 >> > HISTFILESIZE=77700 >> > HISTCONTROL=ignoredup >> > >> > After executing the folloing commands and rebooting, >> > $ export HISTSIZE=91000 >> > $ export HISTFILESIZE=91000 >> > $ export HISTCONTROL=ignoredup >> > the result of >> > $ history >> > is same. >> >> Because you are telling it: HISTCONTROL=ignoredup (strangely, my doco >> spells >> it "ignoredups", in plural) means to ignore duplicates (usually this is >> what >> you want). Try entering different command lines (e.g. "echo bim" then >> "echo >> bam") to test. >> >> If you don't want to have duplicates ignored, for whatever reason, just >> unset HISTCONTROL. >> >> I have mine set to "ignore both" -- it then ignores command with leading >> spaces too. Thus I can easily decide that I don't want to have some >> command in the history: I tend to do that for somewhat dangerous commands >> I don't want repeated "by accident". >> >> regards >> - -- t >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) >> >> iEYEARECAAYFAlbNn7YACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZdzQCfQVF079RCNjLK+Ivj4Du9H7TY >> 7U0AniAgSrDgdoTvVu8GFhXE0BwzFM+7 >> =2nl6 >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> >
