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| author | Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz> | 2016-08-18 15:45:51 +1200 |
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| committer | Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz> | 2016-08-18 15:47:36 +1200 |
| commit | e6cae908d07ef35374919883c9aa868fb86600cc (patch) | |
| tree | 00dd71acf7d9e4150e8d694fb2475e1653ac5fac /bash/bashrc | |
| parent | Suppress stderr from command -v checks (diff) | |
| download | dotfiles-e6cae908d07ef35374919883c9aa868fb86600cc.tar.gz dotfiles-e6cae908d07ef35374919883c9aa868fb86600cc.zip | |
Drastically limit amount of history kept
Reading really large files seems to be slow in Bash in general, but it's
particularly bad in 4.4rc1. I keep encrypted snapshots of my HISTFILE on
my home machine, so it's just a little extra step to search them.
Diffstat (limited to 'bash/bashrc')
| -rw-r--r-- | bash/bashrc | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/bash/bashrc b/bash/bashrc index 220ecec6..7defd85d 100644 --- a/bash/bashrc +++ b/bash/bashrc @@ -19,11 +19,11 @@ if shopt -q restricted_shell ; then return fi -# Keep around sixteen million lines of history in file -HISTFILESIZE=$((1 << 24)) +# Keep around four thousand lines of history in file +HISTFILESIZE=$((1 << 12)) -# Keep around four thousand lines of history in memory -HISTSIZE=$((1 << 12)) +# Keep around one thousand lines of history in memory +HISTSIZE=$((1 << 10)) # Ignore duplicate commands and whitespace in history HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth |