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| author | Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> | 2012-05-02 08:22:31 -0400 |
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| committer | Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> | 2012-05-02 08:22:31 -0400 |
| commit | ed3f3b6c22ca1b857991f40df39d6781a52596dc (patch) | |
| tree | 2128f0b01359cfe6e704b887ed9e615bf2d7d38b /doc/bash.1 | |
| parent | 1bb5d5c6992e9d1ba32eb842bfdb05a8428fe905 (diff) | |
| download | bash-ed3f3b6c22ca1b857991f40df39d6781a52596dc.tar.gz | |
commit bash-20120406 snapshot
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@@ -5,12 +5,12 @@ .\" Case Western Reserve University .\" chet@po.cwru.edu .\" -.\" Last Change: Sat Feb 4 17:32:13 EST 2012 +.\" Last Change: Sat Apr 7 20:01:48 EDT 2012 .\" .\" bash_builtins, strip all but Built-Ins section .if \n(zZ=1 .ig zZ .if \n(zY=1 .ig zY -.TH BASH 1 "2012 February 4" "GNU Bash 4.2" +.TH BASH 1 "2012 April 7" "GNU Bash 4.2" .\" .\" There's some problem with having a `@' .\" in a tagged paragraph with the BSD man macros. @@ -1972,7 +1972,7 @@ The name of the file in which command history is saved (see .SM .B HISTORY below). The default value is \fI~/.bash_history\fP. If unset, the -command history is not saved when an interactive shell exits. +command history is not saved when a shell exits. .TP .B HISTFILESIZE The maximum number of lines contained in the history file. When this @@ -1980,7 +1980,7 @@ variable is assigned a value, the history file is truncated, if necessary, to contain no more than that number of lines by removing the oldest entries. The history file is also truncated to this size after -writing it when an interactive shell exits. +writing it when a shell exits. If the value is 0, the history file is truncated to zero size. Non-numeric values and numeric values less than zero inhibit truncation. The shell sets the default value to the value of \fBHISTSIZE\fP @@ -2314,10 +2314,11 @@ after .B TMOUT seconds when input is coming from a terminal. In an interactive shell, the value is interpreted as the -number of seconds to wait for input after issuing the primary prompt. +number of seconds to wait for a line of input after issuing the +primary prompt. .B Bash -terminates after waiting for that number of seconds if input does -not arrive. +terminates after waiting for that number of seconds if a complete +line of input does not arrive. .TP .B TMPDIR If set, \fBbash\fP uses its value as the name of a directory in which @@ -6292,7 +6293,7 @@ These timestamps are optionally displayed depending on the value of the .SM .B HISTTIMEFORMAT variable. -When an interactive shell exits, the last +When a shell with history enabled exits, the last .SM .B $HISTSIZE lines are copied from the history list to |