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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]

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]

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

[FreakyFreak]

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.