Re: bash history

2024-08-01 Thread Karl Vogel
This is how I keep a long-term record of bash commands from different sessions: https://www.reddit.com/r/bash/comments/ak9c3r/ HTH -- Karl Vogel I don't speak for anyone but myself Comment: I use a screwdriver a lot Reply: I'm all out of orange juice. Will straight vodka

Re: bash history

2024-07-28 Thread Mike Castle
On Sun, Jul 28, 2024 at 5:16 AM songbird wrote: > not that i would want that, > > but it would be possible for various terminals to save to > their own unique history files based upon terminal pty or > tty or anything else you'd like and to reload those upon >

Re: bash history

2024-07-28 Thread Mike Castle
On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 11:23 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Sun, Jul 28, 2024 at 12:25 AM Mike Castle wrote: > > * I keep history under source control (currently git) and regularly > > (well, for some definition of "regularly"), merge them across machines > > Thi

Re: bash history

2024-07-28 Thread Mike Castle
On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 11:04 PM mick.crane wrote: > If I've "su'd" I type "exit". > To close the terminal I click that X in the virtual terminal's top right > hand corner. Depending on settings, that may or may not save that invocation's histo

Re: bash history

2024-07-28 Thread The Wanderer
On 2024-07-28 at 09:29, Yassine Chaouche wrote: > Le 7/28/24 à 12:19, songbird a écrit : > >> to keep my own setup consistent and to not keep certain things in >> history i actually do the opposite of what you want because i want >> certain commands already preload

Re: bash history

2024-07-28 Thread Yassine Chaouche
Le 7/28/24 à 12:19, songbird a écrit : [...] to keep my own setup consistent and to not keep certain things in history i actually do the opposite of what you want because i want certain commands already preloaded in my history for all windows when i start up and then i adjust my environment

Re: bash history

2024-07-28 Thread songbird
mick.crane wrote: > In debian bookworm, xfce desktop, different virtual terminals have a > different history if same user presses "up key" in different virtual > terminals ? > Is this something that can be changed so history is shared between > virtual terminals? &

Re: bash history

2024-07-28 Thread Yassine Chaouche
Le 7/28/24 à 05:24, Mike Castle a écrit : On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 2:50 PM mick.crane wrote: Is this something that can be changed so history is shared between virtual terminals? Yes. [...] From my .bashrc file, I have the following history related settings: # No limit on running

Re: bash history

2024-07-27 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-07-27 23:58, Greg Wooledge wrote: You need to specify *exactly* what you're doing. "exactly" is at mickiwiki.com I can take the ridicule of my coding understanding. Whenever I need to reboot my computer (kernel update or the like), I decide which shells I want to reta

Re: bash history

2024-07-27 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Jul 28, 2024 at 12:25 AM Mike Castle wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 2:50 PM mick.crane wrote: > > Is this something that can be changed so history is shared between > > virtual terminals? > > [...] > For me, I see up bash with the following features: > *

Re: bash history

2024-07-27 Thread mick.crane
see the history in a new terminal, where I "cd'd" to for example. stuff like that. No, I mean *how did you close the terminal*? And what terminal is it? one of these 1826 ?Sl 0:00 xfce4-terminal 1854 pts/0Ss 0:00 bash If I've "su'd" I type

Re: bash history

2024-07-27 Thread Mike Castle
On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 2:50 PM mick.crane wrote: > Is this something that can be changed so history is shared between > virtual terminals? Yes. There are all sorts of settings that can control how shells save history. Most shells are capable of doing whatever you want, but the d

Re: bash history

2024-07-27 Thread Max Nikulin
On 28/07/2024 08:01, mick.crane wrote: Sometimes I forget where I was after closing a virtual terminal  and it would be handy to see the history in a new terminal, where I "cd'd" to for example. help history less ~/.bash_history

Re: bash history

2024-07-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Jul 28, 2024 at 02:01:04 +0100, mick.crane wrote: > On 2024-07-27 23:58, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > You need to specify *exactly* what you're doing. > Sometimes I forget where I was after closing a virtual terminal and it > would be handy to see the history > in

Re: bash history

2024-07-27 Thread mick.crane
her directories that I"ll use bits of. Mainly using different windows Ctrl+Alt+arrows in Xfce with their own virtual terminals. Sometimes I forget where I was after closing a virtual terminal and it would be handy to see the history in a new terminal, where I "cd'd" to for

Re: bash history

2024-07-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2024-07-27 22:50:17 +0100, mick.crane wrote: > In debian bookworm, xfce desktop, different virtual terminals have a > different history if same user presses "up key" in different virtual > terminals ? > Is this something that can be changed so history is shared betwe

Re: bash history

2024-07-27 Thread The Wanderer
On 2024-07-27 at 18:44, mick.crane wrote: > On 2024-07-27 23:08, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 22:50:17 +0100, mick.crane wrote: >> >>> In debian bookworm, xfce desktop, different virtual terminals >>> have a different history if same us

Re: bash history

2024-07-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 23:44:08 +0100, mick.crane wrote: > On 2024-07-27 23:08, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 22:50:17 +0100, mick.crane wrote: > > > In debian bookworm, xfce desktop, different virtual terminals have a > > > different history if sa

Re: bash history

2024-07-27 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-07-27 23:08, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 22:50:17 +0100, mick.crane wrote: In debian bookworm, xfce desktop, different virtual terminals have a different history if same user presses "up key" in different virtual terminals ? As your subject says, this is &qu

Re: bash history

2024-07-27 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 10:50:17PM +0100, mick.crane wrote: > Is this something that can be changed so history is shared between virtual > terminals? You may be interested in "atuin" to aggregate shell history from multiple logins and machines in a searchable interface. It ca

Re: bash history

2024-07-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 22:50:17 +0100, mick.crane wrote: > In debian bookworm, xfce desktop, different virtual terminals have a > different history if same user presses "up key" in different virtual > terminals ? As your subject says, this is "bash history". And y

bash history

2024-07-27 Thread mick.crane
In debian bookworm, xfce desktop, different virtual terminals have a different history if same user presses "up key" in different virtual terminals ? Is this something that can be changed so history is shared between virtual terminals? mick

Re: script/history

2024-02-04 Thread Gareth Evans
On Mon 05/02/2024 at 00:45, Greg Wooledge wrote: ... > If you're one of these "I want every command I ever run to be in my > shell history, retained forever, and I don't care how much space it > takes" people, then there are web pages out there that can help you. >

Re: script/history

2024-02-04 Thread Gareth Evans
(Re)posting the below as requested, and can confirm history -r seems to have the desired effect. Thanks. - Original message - From: Will Mengarini To: Gareth Evans Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: script/history Date: Monday, 5 February 2024 01:02 * Gareth Evans [24

Re: script/history

2024-02-04 Thread Will Mengarini
* Gareth Evans [24-02/04=Su 09:46 +]: > Re the script command, does anyone know of a way to make > commands run during a script session appear in bash history too? You want the 'history -r' command, "explained" by `help history`. After you end the script, you&#x

Re: script/history

2024-02-04 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 12:28:38AM +, Gareth Evans wrote: > I was trying to view the history of commands run during a script session. > > user@qwerty:~$ script foo > Script started, output log file is 'foo'. > user@qwerty:~$ date > Mon 5 Feb 00:21:16 GMT 2024

Re: script/history

2024-02-04 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sun 04/02/2024 at 19:45, David Wright wrote: ... > According to this man page for csh (but includes tcsh): > > https://linux.die.net/man/1/csh > > the "a" that modifies modifiers is a "[feature] of tcsh not found > in most csh(1) implementations (specifically, the 4.4BSD csh)". It > appears t

Re: script/history

2024-02-04 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sun 04/02/2024 at 17:33, Greg Wooledge wrote: ... > The script(1) utility has NOTHING to do with running ordinary shell > scripts. I understand that. I was trying to view the history of commands run during a script session. user@qwerty:~$ script foo Script started, output log file i

Re: script/history

2024-02-04 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Feb 04, 2024 at 01:45:27PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > SCRIPT(1) User Commands SCRIPT(1) > [ … ] > HISTORY >The script command appeared in 3.0BSD. > > I have no idea why "the history mechanism" is even mentioned >

Re: script/history

2024-02-04 Thread David Wright
gt; >> "SEE ALSO > >> csh(1) (for the history mechanism)" My take on this is that the man page was originally written for BSD, which lies on the csh side of the "great divide" rather than the sh/bash side. SCRIPT(1) User Commands

Re: script/history

2024-02-04 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Feb 04, 2024 at 04:01:29PM +, Gareth Evans wrote: > It seemed to me initially (as I should perhaps have stated) that man script > was suggesting that csh was a component or depedency (of script), which > seemed to be contradicted by it not being installed. On reflection, > possibly,

Re: script/history

2024-02-04 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sun 04/02/2024 at 13:24, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 04/02/2024 16:46, Gareth Evans wrote: >> Re the script command, does anyone know of a way to make commands run during >> a script session appear in bash history too? > [...] >> man script says >> >> "SE

Re: script/history

2024-02-04 Thread hw
date > > Sun 4 Feb 09:44:00 GMT 2024 > > $ exit > > exit > > Script done. > > $ history|tail -n2 > > 30797 2024-02-04 09:43:57 script foo.txt > > 30798 2024-02-04 09:44:21 history|tail -n2 > > > > I did try to search on this but just got lots o

Re: script/history

2024-02-04 Thread Max Nikulin
On 04/02/2024 16:46, Gareth Evans wrote: Re the script command, does anyone know of a way to make commands run during a script session appear in bash history too? [...] man script says "SEE ALSO csh(1) (for the history mechanism)" but $ man csh No manual entry for csh

Re: script/history

2024-02-04 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Feb 04, 2024 at 09:46:09AM +, Gareth Evans wrote: > man script says > > "SEE ALSO > csh(1) (for the history mechanism)" > > but > > $ man csh > No manual entry for csh I'm so glad that we're entering an era where it's norm

Re: script/history

2024-02-04 Thread Michael Grant
> $ script foo.txt > Script started, output log file is 'foo.txt'. > $ date > Sun 4 Feb 09:44:00 GMT 2024 > $ exit > exit > Script done. > $ history|tail -n2 > 30797 2024-02-04 09:43:57 script foo.txt > 30798 2024-02-04 09:44:21 history|tail -n2 >

Re: script/history

2024-02-04 Thread hw
On Sun, 2024-02-04 at 09:46 +, Gareth Evans wrote: > Re the script command, does anyone know of a way to make commands > run during a script session appear in bash history too? Maybe this: https://serverfault.com/questions/16204/how-to-make-bash-scripts-print-out-every-command-bef

script/history

2024-02-04 Thread Gareth Evans
Re the script command, does anyone know of a way to make commands run during a script session appear in bash history too? $ script foo.txt Script started, output log file is 'foo.txt'. $ date Sun 4 Feb 09:44:00 GMT 2024 $ exit exit Script done. $ history|tail -n2 30797 2024-02-0

Re: On folders vs. directories and history [was: how to compare...]

2023-11-07 Thread Tom Browder
I’m comforted by this friendly discussion about the old days versus the modern generation by fellow old folks of pre-PC days. Sort of like an afternoon gathering at the Elks or the VFW. Thank you all. Blessings. -Tom

Re: [OFFTOPIC] On folders vs. directories and history [was: how to compare...]

2023-11-06 Thread tomas
On Fri, Nov 03, 2023 at 12:57:39PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > tomas writes: > > See my other reply. My whole point is about making lives of curious > > users easier by sticking to the terminology they'll find should they > > dare (yes,please!) to open that door to the cellar. > > The people at Xe

Re: On folders vs. directories and history [was: how to compare...]

2023-11-06 Thread tomas
On Fri, Nov 03, 2023 at 08:25:20AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > tomas writes: > > Small anecdote: there was an old Linux distro (ISTR it was SuSE) where > > something below /etc/init.d (or was it /etc/rc.d? It's a long while > > ago) was a symlink to the parent directory, creating an infinite > > hi

Re: On folders vs. directories and history [was: how to compare...]

2023-11-06 Thread John Hasler
tomas writes: > Small anecdote: there was an old Linux distro (ISTR it was SuSE) where > something below /etc/init.d (or was it /etc/rc.d? It's a long while > ago) was a symlink to the parent directory, creating an infinite > hierarchy (or a circular reference, depending on how you squint). On Sys

Re: [OFFTOPIC] On folders vs. directories and history [was: how to compare...]

2023-11-06 Thread John Hasler
tomas writes: > See my other reply. My whole point is about making lives of curious > users easier by sticking to the terminology they'll find should they > dare (yes,please!) to open that door to the cellar. The people at Xerox PARC and SRI who came up with the desktop metaphor in the early years

Re: On folders vs. directories and history [was: how to compare...]

2023-11-06 Thread Curt
On 2023-11-06, Nicolas George wrote: > Loris Bennett (12023-11-06): >> I beg to differ. I think you are confusing the precise definition of >> something with the label used to refer to it. When the transistor was >> invented, so was a new word to describe it. When this particular >> concept of

Re: On folders vs. directories and history [was: how to compare...]

2023-11-06 Thread Nicolas George
Loris Bennett (12023-11-06): > I beg to differ. I think you are confusing the precise definition of > something with the label used to refer to it. When the transistor was > invented, so was a new word to describe it. When this particular > concept of how to organise data on a computer, about wh

Re: On folders vs. directories and history [was: how to compare...]

2023-11-06 Thread Loris Bennett
Nicolas George writes: >> Surely 'directory' is also just a more or >> less apt metaphor > > You missed the point: directory is not a metaphor at all, it is a > precise term for what is actually being talked about. I beg to differ. I think you are confusing the prec

Re: On folders vs. directories and history

2023-11-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Nicolas George wrote: > > Ear, ear! Curt wrote: > An ear c'est une oreille. C'est probablement because les frenchais ne cannot pas prononcer le "H". Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: [OFFTOPIC] On folders vs. directories and history [was: how to compare...]

2023-11-03 Thread tomas
On Fri, Nov 03, 2023 at 11:33:55AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Regarding Tomas' assertion, I'm not sure I buy into the argument > > regarding dumbing-down [...] > I guess in a sense what's going on here is that these words act as kinds > of "dog whistle". I don't think the argument that "dir

Re: On folders vs. directories and history [was: how to compare...]

2023-11-03 Thread tomas
On Fri, Nov 03, 2023 at 03:46:38PM +0100, Loris Bennett wrote: > Nicolas George writes: > > > to...@tuxteam.de (12023-11-03): > >> The other is related: folder has become the culture of those > >> who want to "sell you knowledge", i.e. of those whose business > >> model is based on keeping you du

Re: On folders vs. directories and history [was: how to compare...]

2023-11-03 Thread Curt
On 2023-11-03, Nicolas George wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de (12023-11-03): >> The other is related: folder has become the culture of those >> who want to "sell you knowledge", i.e. of those whose business >> model is based on keeping you dumb. > > Ear, ear! https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hear,_hear A

Re: On folders vs. directories and history [was: how to compare...]

2023-11-03 Thread gene heskett
On 11/3/23 11:17, Nicolas George wrote: Loris Bennett (12023-11-03): If I think of the main non-digital directory I have dealt with in my life it was a telephone directory. That also did not contain further directories within itself. On the other hand, scholarly articles usually contain a bib

Re: [OFFTOPIC] On folders vs. directories and history [was: how to compare...]

2023-11-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
t;directory" is better technically than "folder" is really strong, so I can totally imagine a different version of the world's history where those two terms end up used in exactly reversed ways where Unix (and win32) ends up using "folder" while Windows's user-fac

Re: On folders vs. directories and history [was: how to compare...]

2023-11-03 Thread Nicolas George
Loris Bennett (12023-11-03): > If I think of the main non-digital directory I have dealt with in my > life it was a telephone directory. That also did not contain further > directories within itself. On the other hand, scholarly articles usually contain a bibliography section, i.e. a directory of

Re: On folders vs. directories and history [was: how to compare...]

2023-11-03 Thread Loris Bennett
Nicolas George writes: > to...@tuxteam.de (12023-11-03): >> The other is related: folder has become the culture of those >> who want to "sell you knowledge", i.e. of those whose business >> model is based on keeping you dumb. > > Ear, ear! > > Also, that metaphor is easy, but it is very shaky. In

Re: On folders vs. directories and history [was: how to compare...]

2023-11-03 Thread tomas
On Fri, Nov 03, 2023 at 08:46:36AM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de (12023-11-03): > > The other is related: folder has become the culture of those > > who want to "sell you knowledge", i.e. of those whose business > > model is based on keeping you dumb. > > Ear, ear! > > Also, tha

Re: On folders vs. directories and history [was: how to compare...]

2023-11-03 Thread Nicolas George
to...@tuxteam.de (12023-11-03): > The other is related: folder has become the culture of those > who want to "sell you knowledge", i.e. of those whose business > model is based on keeping you dumb. Ear, ear! Also, that metaphor is easy, but it is very shaky. In the physical world, I have *sometim

On folders vs. directories and history [was: how to compare...]

2023-11-02 Thread tomas
On Thu, Nov 02, 2023 at 11:17:01PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2023 at 12:16:54PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > This was in the 1970s when the graphical UI was being invented. The > > idea was that the screen was to look like an actual desktop which might > > have actual file fol

Re: Re: history/history.db files appearing

2020-09-04 Thread Humberto Massa
The culprit is MAME (mame_0.206+dfsg.1-1 in my buster machine). I deleted the directory, ran MAME thru the menu and voila, it showed up again. changing .mame/io.ini so that the key historypath starts with .mame/ is enough to make the problem disappear for me. HTH, -- []s; Massa⠠⠵ via GMail Inbo

Re: Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

2020-04-19 Thread David
On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 at 22:15, wrote: > On Saturday, April 18, 2020 07:00:53 AM David wrote: > > On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 at 20:20, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > I can see any *ONE* previous commands by using the up-arrow key. > > > But I need to see the *comple

Re: Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

2020-04-18 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 18/4/20 10:14 pm, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, April 18, 2020 07:00:53 AM David wrote: On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 at 20:20, 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". Obv

Re: Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

2020-04-18 Thread David Wright
On Sat 18 Apr 2020 at 09:31:10 (-0400), songbird wrote: > David wrote: > > On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 at 20:20, 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 &q

Re: Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

2020-04-18 Thread songbird
David wrote: > On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 at 20:20, 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? > > Read

Re: [Thanks all] - Re: Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

2020-04-18 Thread rhkramer
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 s

Re: Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

2020-04-18 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, April 18, 2020 07:00:53 AM David wrote: > On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 at 20:20, 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

Re: [Thanks all] - Re: Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

2020-04-18 Thread tomas
On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 06:52:23AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] > 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. That&

[Thanks all] - Re: Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

2020-04-18 Thread Richard Owlett
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. witho

Re: Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

2020-04-18 Thread David
On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 at 20:20, 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? Reading https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/08

Re: Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

2020-04-18 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 18/04/2020 11:19, 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 Well, for Bash, the file is at ~/.bash_history (as set in $HISTF

Re: Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

2020-04-18 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sat, 18 Apr, 2020 at 05:19:40 -0500, 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 Use the 'history' command, o

Seeing command history when using MATE terminal

2020-04-18 Thread Richard Owlett
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

Re: Searching for a package containing ch-releases.en.html and similar history about Debian

2019-12-27 Thread Keith Christian
On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 2:58 PM Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2019-12-27 12:20 -0700, Keith Christian wrote: > > > It seems at one point there was a debian documentation package that > > contained either text or HTML versions of the project's history as > > seen

Re: Searching for a package containing ch-releases.en.html and similar history about Debian

2019-12-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2019-12-27 12:20 -0700, Keith Christian wrote: > It seems at one point there was a debian documentation package that > contained either text or HTML versions of the project's history as > seen on this page: > > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history

Searching for a package containing ch-releases.en.html and similar history about Debian

2019-12-27 Thread Keith Christian
It seems at one point there was a debian documentation package that contained either text or HTML versions of the project's history as seen on this page: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ch-releases.en.html Unable to find anything on packages.debian.org containin

Re: history/history.db files appearing

2019-08-10 Thread Greg Marks
ectory to a backup disk. That's been running for several years without any changes. I periodically run rsync manually as well. > Are they open by some process? Check with lsof. The commands "lsof | grep history" and "sudo lsof | grep 'history.db'" return noth

Re: history/history.db files appearing

2019-08-10 Thread David Wright
On Fri 09 Aug 2019 at 14:53:32 (-0500), Greg Marks wrote: > On a computer running Debian 10, in a number of directories a > subdirectory "history" has mysteriously appeared containing a > file history.db. There are 11 of these history.db files in various > places in my home

Re: history/history.db files appearing

2019-08-10 Thread Richard Hector
On 10/08/19 7:53 AM, Greg Marks wrote: > On a computer running Debian 10, in a number of directories a > subdirectory "history" has mysteriously appeared containing a > file history.db. There are 11 of these history.db files in various > places in my home directory; cmp rev

Re: history/history.db files appearing

2019-08-09 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 10/8/19 1:32 pm, David wrote: > I don't know the answer, but you might find some clues here: > https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=history.db&literal=1 Note > the list of package names at the top of the page. Why is it not accessible vi

Re: history/history.db files appearing

2019-08-09 Thread Judah Richardson
Do you have some kind of backup, sync, or versioning application running? On Fri, Aug 9, 2019, 22:01 Greg Marks wrote: > On a computer running Debian 10, in a number of directories a > subdirectory "history" has mysteriously appeared containing a > file history.db. Th

Re: history/history.db files appearing

2019-08-09 Thread David
On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 at 13:01, Greg Marks wrote: > > On a computer running Debian 10, in a number of directories a > subdirectory "history" has mysteriously appeared containing a > file history.db. [...] > Does anyone know what might be causing this? I don't know

history/history.db files appearing

2019-08-09 Thread Greg Marks
On a computer running Debian 10, in a number of directories a subdirectory "history" has mysteriously appeared containing a file history.db. There are 11 of these history.db files in various places in my home directory; cmp reveals that they are all identical. Each is an "SQLi

Re: config question re ff history etc

2019-05-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 10 May 2019 03:45:49 am Curt wrote: > On 2019-05-09, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 09 May 2019 12:51:24 pm Curt wrote: > >> On 2019-05-09, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> > Greetings all; > >> > > >> > I have a need to transfer all the prefs -"saved logins" from a > >> > wheezy install

Re: config question re ff history etc

2019-05-10 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-09, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 09 May 2019 12:51:24 pm Curt wrote: > >> On 2019-05-09, Gene Heskett wrote: >> > Greetings all; >> > >> > I have a need to transfer all the prefs -"saved logins" from a >> > wheezy install to a stretch install, separate drives. And obviously >> >

Re: config question re ff history etc

2019-05-09 Thread Dan Purgert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, May 09, 2019 03:54:33 PM Dan Purgert wrote: >> Gene Heskett wrote: >> > On Thursday 09 May 2019 12:00:56 pm john doe wrote: >> >> I would say the 'profile' that you want to move. >> > >> > That does not exist

Re: config question re ff history etc

2019-05-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 09 May 2019 07:53:44 pm David Wright wrote: > On Thu 09 May 2019 at 16:26:10 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 09 May 2019 12:51:24 pm Curt wrote: > > > On 2019-05-09, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Greetings all; > > > > > > > > I have a need to transfer all the prefs -"saved

Re: config question re ff history etc

2019-05-09 Thread David Wright
On Thu 09 May 2019 at 16:26:10 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 09 May 2019 12:51:24 pm Curt wrote: > > > On 2019-05-09, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Greetings all; > > > > > > I have a need to transfer all the prefs -"saved logins" from a > > > wheezy install to a stretch install, separat

Re: config question re ff history etc

2019-05-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 09 May 2019 12:51:24 pm Curt wrote: > On 2019-05-09, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I have a need to transfer all the prefs -"saved logins" from a > > wheezy install to a stretch install, separate drives. And obviously > > the stretch firefox is about 20 versions newe

Re: config question re ff history etc

2019-05-09 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, May 09, 2019 03:54:33 PM Dan Purgert wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 09 May 2019 12:00:56 pm john doe wrote: > >> I would say the 'profile' that you want to move. > > > > That does not exist in my $home dir on the src drive. Any idea where it > > may be? > > Should be s

Re: config question re ff history etc

2019-05-09 Thread Dan Purgert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 09 May 2019 12:00:56 pm john doe wrote: > >> On 5/9/2019 5:32 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> > Greetings all; >> > >> > I have a need to transfer all the prefs -"saved logins" from a >> > wheezy install to a stretch inst

Re: config question re ff history etc

2019-05-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 09 May 2019 12:00:56 pm john doe wrote: > On 5/9/2019 5:32 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I have a need to transfer all the prefs -"saved logins" from a > > wheezy install to a stretch install, separate drives. And obviously > > the stretch firefox is about 20 vers

Re: config question re ff history etc

2019-05-09 Thread David Wright
s I visit with that browser. (I save usernames but not passwords.) IIRC it's cookies that prevent security questions being asked all the time. I think places is the file that contains history, along with bookmarks and other stuff. I don't believe I have a profile dating from wheezy so I don

Re: config question re ff history etc

2019-05-09 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-09, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I have a need to transfer all the prefs -"saved logins" from a wheezy > install to a stretch install, separate drives. And obviously the > stretch firefox is about 20 versions newer. What file do I copy from the > wheezy drive to the stre

Re: config question re ff history etc

2019-05-09 Thread john doe
On 5/9/2019 5:32 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I have a need to transfer all the prefs -"saved logins" from a wheezy > install to a stretch install, separate drives. And obviously the > stretch firefox is about 20 versions newer. What file do I copy from the > wheezy drive to the st

config question re ff history etc

2019-05-09 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I have a need to transfer all the prefs -"saved logins" from a wheezy install to a stretch install, separate drives. And obviously the stretch firefox is about 20 versions newer. What file do I copy from the wheezy drive to the stretch drive so my bank knows its me? Cheers, Gen

Re: Package install history - logs etc ?

2018-12-04 Thread Curt
On 2018-12-03, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: >> > >> > The logs are gzipped periodically (gibberish for less). >> >> But not for zless. > > Hmm, I might have found / committed a [p]ebkac, it now seems that, for > example: > > cat /var/log/dpkg.log.* | less > > ... works fine. Not sure what I did w

Re: Package install history - logs etc ?

2018-12-03 Thread David Wright
On Mon 03 Dec 2018 at 12:01:51 (-0500), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, December 03, 2018 10:21:44 AM Brian wrote: > > On Mon 03 Dec 2018 at 14:57:53 +, Curt wrote: > > > On 2018-12-03, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Monday, December 03, 2018 06:02:05 AM Steve Kemp wrote: > > > >>

Re: Package install history - logs etc ?

2018-12-03 Thread Javier Barroso
; > > The logs are gzipped periodically (gibberish for less). >> > >> > But not for zless. >> >> Hmm, I might have found / committed a [p]ebkac, it now seems that, for >> example: >> >> cat /var/log/dpkg.log.* | less >> >> ... works fi

Re: Package install history - logs etc ?

2018-12-03 Thread Javier Barroso
at, for > example: > > cat /var/log/dpkg.log.* | less > > ... works fine. Not sure what I did wrong earlier. (And they apparently > are > not gzipped (on my Wheezy system). > I created a script to browse apt history: https://twitter.com/CiudadanosCs/status/1069505851340349440?s=19 Maybe can be useful for you >

Re: Package install history - logs etc ?

2018-12-03 Thread rhkramer
On Monday, December 03, 2018 10:21:44 AM Brian wrote: > On Mon 03 Dec 2018 at 14:57:53 +, Curt wrote: > > On 2018-12-03, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Monday, December 03, 2018 06:02:05 AM Steve Kemp wrote: > > >> > Is there anywhere else I should look? > > >> > > > >> Take a look at /

Re: Package install history - logs etc ?

2018-12-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Mon, 3 Dec 2018, Curt wrote: > Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2018 09:57:53 > From: Curt > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Package install history - logs etc ? > Resent-Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2018 15:00:24 + (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > &

Re: Package install history - logs etc ?

2018-12-03 Thread Brian
On Mon 03 Dec 2018 at 14:57:53 +, Curt wrote: > On 2018-12-03, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Monday, December 03, 2018 06:02:05 AM Steve Kemp wrote: > >> > Is there anywhere else I should look? > >> > >> Take a look at /var/log/dpkg.log* too. > > > > (I am not the OP.) Is there a speci

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