Recover Linux terminal command history behaviour after Ubuntu upgrade

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If you are using BASH, your history should be stored in in the location that is pointed to by the environment variable HISTFILE. You can view this with "echo $HISTFILE". By default, this should be ~/.bash_history. This is also what will be used if $HISTFILE is not set. If HISTFILE is not set to that location, you can set it with the following:

export HISTFILE=~/.bash_history

The following will reload the history file into your history buffer:

history -r

If this does not resolve your issue, the "HISTORY" section of the bash manpage may give more clues as to why your history is not working as expected.

You may also want to check and make sure your shell has not changed from bash:

echo $0

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Syed Raza

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Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

Syed Raza almost 2 years

I would like to recover Linux terminal command history behaviour after updating from Ubuntu 10.04 to 11.10.

I lost the great terminal feature of accessing recent commands through the up and down arrow keys, or the command history is not being saved anymore.

Can somebody guide how to recover that behaviour?
- Admin over 12 years
  
  Do you mean that the 'history' command doesn't work anymore? Or that you can't use emacs-style searching (C-S, C-R)? What feature are you missing specifically?
- Keith Thompson over 12 years
  
  Command history is handled by the shell (probably bash), not by the terminal.
Syed Raza over 12 years

these command are not helpful which you mentioned.. Everything you asked me to check is already the same like as u asked.. but still not helpful. I tried this command still not help ful "sudo gedit /home/administrator/.bash_history" output is this 'code' cd /etc/default/ nano console-setup exit 'code'
Mediterran81 over 11 years

You might also check if the file ~/.bash_history has correct persmission: sudo chmod 777 ~/.bash_history