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How to increase the command history size?

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Hi,

I can see Oracle Linux has default 1000 lines of command history.

How to increase the size. Is it the same method as RedHat that use HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE variables?

I will add the following files into user's /home/user/.bashrc file.


HISTSIZE=10000

HISTFILESIZE=1000000

shopt -s histappend

export PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a; history -c; history -r; $PROMPT_COMMAND"


The above four lines I used in RedHat Linux.

Thanks

Xiaogang

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