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ordinary on March 26, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Keeping bash history in sync between multiple term...

It doesn't seem to work for me unless I switch the two commands:

  PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a;history -n'

mise on March 26, 2012 [–]

I was having some weird problems two, with some commands not even being recorded.

As people on the blog commented, I've followed and only include `history -a`. Running `history -n` would screw up the workflow of pressing the up cursor to scroll through the current terminal's history.

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