On Saturday, April 18, 2020 07:52:23 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04/18/2020 05:19 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I can see any *ONE* previous commands by using the up-arrow key. > > But I need to see the *complete* history. F1 is no "Help". > > Obviously its stored in a file. Where? > > TIA > > Using 'cat ~/.bash_history' gives desired format (i.e. without the line > numbers prepended by the 'history' command). > > There's one thing I don't understand - erasure of previous history. > > https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/088 states it as: > > ... it overwrites the existing history with the new version. > > What I actually see goes back over several uses of the MATE terminal > including multiple power off/on cycles. Not that I object, it is my > desired result.
I believe that is because when a terminal starts it loads the existing contents of the $HISTFILE. (Then, as stated in other posts, it is saved when the terminal is closed. But there is a limit to the number of command lines saved in any instance of bash (any terminal), and when commands exceed that limit, the oldest are dropped. $HISTSIZE is the limit in within a terminal, the default is 500 -- setting it to a negative number makes it unlimited $HISTFILESIZE is a limit on the size of the command history file (in lines)
