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added two other history commands since he says he wants to use it in other running sessions
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To do this, you'll need to add two lines to your ~/.bashrc:

shopt -s histappend
PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a;$PROMPT_COMMAND"a;history -c;history -r;$PROMPT_COMMAND"

From man bash:

If the histappend shell option is enabled (see the description of shopt under SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS below), the lines are appended to the history file, otherwise the history file is over-written.

To do this, you'll need to add two lines to your ~/.bashrc:

shopt -s histappend
PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a;$PROMPT_COMMAND"

From man bash:

If the histappend shell option is enabled (see the description of shopt under SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS below), the lines are appended to the history file, otherwise the history file is over-written.

To do this, you'll need to add two lines to your ~/.bashrc:

shopt -s histappend
PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a;history -c;history -r;$PROMPT_COMMAND"

From man bash:

If the histappend shell option is enabled (see the description of shopt under SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS below), the lines are appended to the history file, otherwise the history file is over-written.

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Chris Down
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To do this, you'll need to add two lines to your ~/.bashrc:

shopt -s histappend
PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a;$PROMPT_COMMAND"

From man bash:

If the histappend shell option is enabled (see the description of shopt under SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS below), the lines are appended to the history file, otherwise the history file is over-written.