(01-03-2022, 06:04 AM)venam Wrote: What's your process to search in the history file?

I use a function like:

Quote:Do you purge old files also?

Well, if you look at the HISTFILE settings I posted above, each login shell has its temporary history, which is purged upon exiting. As I have rxvt set to spawn a login shell by default, each terminal emulator under X has its own temporary history.

Quote:For many the histfile is a huge source of knowledge, so they increase it's size as much as possible (including me).

I won't deny understanding this perfectly ;). Personally however, I've become accustomed to save useful commands in functions, aliases or ~/.bin scripts. Not having a history to rely on forces me to actually look carefully at the commands I find online (e.g., the typical 'awk' magic one may find it hard to figure themselves), so as to remember them the next time.