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On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 8:39 PM, james kilty wrote: > 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. Did you have more than one shell window open? I have never figured out how/which history is saved when you have two (or seventeen) shell windows open at once and while I don't think this is the cause of the problem, it might have something to do with it. (If you use history a lot, like I do -- mostly ![first characters of command I need] --, it's probably best to let a cron job write it to a file every day. Or, even better, make an alias for all the longer commands you might want to use again.) Martijn. -- 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