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On Friday 16 Oct 2009 20:39:40 james kilty wrote: > Hello > > I seem to have a shell history of 3 entriesonly. It used to be a LOT > longer and a very useful resource as I'll have to work everything out > again without it. > Have a look in the following files for a line like HISTFILESIZE=something: ~/.bashrc ~/.bash_profile If not in those, check: /etc/bash.bashrc When you find the line, just comment it out. By default bash will keep 500 lines of history, so something must be over-riding it. Regards, David. -- David Johnson www.david-web.co.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html