Bash history?

[Tibor Polgar]

Andy Piper writes:
 > 2) History is not preserved between sessions. Although bash 
 > writes out a history file - .bash_history - correctly. It is not read when
 > I start a new bash. Nor can it be read manually. This means my history is 
 > always liimited to the current session which is annoying.

Looks like a bash bug.  Regardless of whether mounted as binary or text, bash
insists on writing the history file entries as cr/lf.  But on reading the
history file it hits the first cr and "beep" (no more history).

Tibor
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