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So, this is all my history-related .bashrc thing:

export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups:erasedups  # no duplicate entries
export HISTSIZE=100000                   # big big history
export HISTFILESIZE=100000               # big big history
shopt -s histappend                      # append to history, don't overwrite it

# Save and reload the history after each command finishes
export PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a; history -c; history -r; $PROMPT_COMMAND"

Tested with bash 3.2.17 on Mac OS X 10.5, bash 4.1.7 on 10.6.

edit: updated with history -c from lesmana's answer, which you should checkout too.

So, this is all my history-related .bashrc thing:

export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups:erasedups  # no duplicate entries
export HISTSIZE=100000                   # big big history
export HISTFILESIZE=100000               # big big history
shopt -s histappend                      # append to history, don't overwrite it

# Save and reload the history after each command finishes
export PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a; history -c; history -r; $PROMPT_COMMAND"

Tested with bash 3.2.17 on Mac OS X 10.5, bash 4.1.7 on 10.6.

edit: updated with history -c from lesmana's answer, which you should checkout too.

So, this is all my history-related .bashrc thing:

export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups:erasedups  # no duplicate entries
export HISTSIZE=100000                   # big big history
export HISTFILESIZE=100000               # big big history
shopt -s histappend                      # append to history, don't overwrite it

# Save and reload the history after each command finishes
export PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a; history -c; history -r; $PROMPT_COMMAND"

Tested with bash 3.2.17 on Mac OS X 10.5, bash 4.1.7 on 10.6.

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So, this is all my history-related .bashrc thing:

export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups:erasedups  # no duplicate entries
export HISTSIZE=100000                   # big big history
export HISTFILESIZE=100000               # big big history
shopt -s histappend                      # append to history, don't overwrite it

# Save and reload the history after each command finishes
export PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a; history -c; history -r; $PROMPT_COMMAND"

Tested with bash 3.2.17 on Mac OS X 10.5, bash 4.1.7 on 10.6.

edit: updated with history -c from lesmana's answer, which you should checkout too.