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Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 11:10:20 +0100
From: "Matteo Lanza" <matteo.lanza@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] bash_history
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On 3/7/06, Haim Ashkenazi <haim@babysnakes.org> wrote:
> when you press reboot the shell process dies, so it doesn't save the
> history. if you want to save history you have to exit the shell and then
> login and enter reboot, or press ctrl+alt+del.

What about putting the following:

    trap "history -w" EXIT

in ~/.bash_profile or /etc/profile?

This way the current history is flushed when the shell exits.

My 2c

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Matteo Lanza
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