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Bash Command (History) Number In PS1
I am a noob in bash to be honest. I have Googled around and cannot find an answer to this:
history lists previous commands and their number e.g.
$ history
286 clear
I want to be able to see the ...
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1answer
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Why does this PS1 value cause unexpected behaviour? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why is my bash prompt getting bugged when I browse the history?
I have set my PS1 variable in .bashrc to be the following:
PS1='\e[35m[\W]:\e[0m '
It achieved what it ...
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1answer
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history list in bash always truncated to 5000 lines at new login
Similar to the 5000 line limitation problem when first thing in .bashrc I have
export HISTSIZE=10001
and
export HISTFILESIZE=$HISTSIZE
My users do not have ~/.inputrc files and the system-wide ...
5
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1answer
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Why is my bash prompt getting bugged when I browse the history?
Often when I start looking at history of commands some of the characters from a command displayed aren't erased, for example:
What's happening:
prompt$ some_command
prompt$ some_commanother_command
...
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3answers
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Bash history number not starting at 1?
I was customizing my bash prompt (I'm on OS X 10.7) when I came across something strange. Within my prompt I included !, which should give me the history number.
However the history number always ...
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Would it be possible to jump between prev/next command prompts?
I'm using zsh in OS X Terminal.app and for quite a while, I've been longing for a way to jump back and forth between prev/next prompts in the terminal's output.
One convenience with this would be to ...
