bash history

[Chrysalis]

The shell I want to remember my command history between sessions, anyone worked out a viable way of doing this?

As well as preserving logs especially between reboots.

 

[thelonelycoder]

Would very much like this!

 

[thelonelycoder]

OK, this works for me. Not sure this is the best way to do it. Correct me if I'm wrong.

With Entware installed do:

opkg update && opkg upgrade
opkg install bash

Edit /tmp/mnt/sda1/entware/etc/profile
Note that my histfile is in /tmp/mnt/sda1/history/.bash_history
Edit if necessary.

# Please note it's not a system-wide settings, it's only for a current
# terminal session. Point your f\w (if necessery) to execute /opt/etc/profile
# at console logon.

export PATH='/opt/usr/sbin:/opt/sbin:/opt/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin'
export TERM=xterm
export TMP=/opt/tmp
export TEMP=/opt/tmp
export HISTFILE=/tmp/mnt/sda1/history/.bash_history
export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups:erasedups  # no duplicate entries
export HISTSIZE=1000                   # big big history
export HISTFILESIZE=1000              # big big history
# Save and reload the history after each command finishes
export PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a; history -c; history -r; $PROMPT_COMMAND"

# You may define localization
#export LANG='ru_RU.UTF-8'
#export LC_ALL='ru_RU.UTF-8'
export TERMINFO=/opt/share/terminfo

Just check that your /tmp/etc/profile has these entries. If the are present all is OK.

[ -f /opt/etc/profile ] && . /opt/etc/profile
[ -f /jffs/configs/profile.add ] && . /jffs/configs/profile.add

Now we do the big trick by telling which shell to use when booting (from busybox to bash):
Create or add to /jffs/configs/profile.add

[ -f /opt/bin/bash ] && exec /opt/bin/bash

Reboot and happy bash history!

Edit: Removed Entware package bash-completion. No longer available.

 

[Chrysalis]

excellent works perfect thanks.

 

[DonnyJohnny]

Is this still valid?
How do we save the command history and use it on other terminal?

 

[thelonelycoder]

Is this still valid?
How do we save the command history and use it on other terminal?

Diversion does keep a shell history by default.

 

[john9527]

To keep it across reboots without installing bash (using the built in ash)....make a /jffs/tmp directory if you don't already have one

add to /jffs/scripts/services-stop

# Save ash history
cp -f /tmp/home/root/.ash_history /jffs/tmp/.ash_history

add to /jffs/scripts/init-start

# Restore ash history
cp -f /jffs/tmp/.ash_history /tmp/home/root/.ash_history