Increasing history size of commands executed in bash

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Increasing history size of commands executed in bash - Tex. - Apr 21, 2016

Unlike the others who frequently delete '.bash_history' or alter the environment so no history of executed commands, i prefer to increase its size and to show my exact date was given an comman. The reason is simply, look what I did on that server and I need to see exactly .
I added in '~/.bashrc' following lines:

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export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "

export HISTFILESIZE=5000000

export HISTSIZE=5000000

So history shows default:

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macbook ~$ history 

    1  cat Documents/provision 

    2  cat Documents/status 

    3  echo 540+876+7320+54|bc

    4  pico Work/ARM/echip/usr/src/sys.c

    5  pico Work/ARM/echip/usr/src/sys.c

    6  ssh [email protected]

macbook ~$

So look on a server with changed history:

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root@tex:~# history

......

  329  21/04/16 21:39:18 tail -f /var/log/mail.log

  330  21/04/16 21:39:18 cd /etc/amavis/

  331  21/04/16 21:39:18 ls

  332  21/04/16 21:39:18 cd conf.d/

  333  21/04/16 21:39:18 ls

  334  21/04/16 21:39:18 pico 01-debian 

  335  21/04/16 21:39:18 grep group *

  336  21/04/16 21:39:18 pico 50-user 

  337  21/04/16 21:39:18 apt-get install libnet-dns-perl libmail-spf-query-perl pyzor razor

  338  21/04/16 21:39:18 apt-get install arj

  339  21/04/16 21:39:18 apt-get install unarj

......

* - FreakyFreak - Apr 21, 2016

Why have a limit ?

export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "
export HISTFILESIZE=-1
export HISTSIZE=-1

as well as

export HISTFILESIZE=
export HISTSIZE=

makes it unlimited.

* - ayleid96 - Apr 21, 2016

install zsh and its easy... its easy to configure... bump

* - FreakyFreak - Apr 21, 2016

(Apr 21, 2016 02:19 PM)ayleid96 Wrote: install zsh and its easy... its easy to configure... bump

Am I the only one who sticks to the system default and doesn't mess around with other variations of shells ?

Fuck bash, fuck zsh, fuck fish, be old school, use bourne shell.