Bug 39838

Summary:	bash truncates ~/.bash_history to 9999 lines despite of $HISTFILESIZE
Product:	Sisyphus	Reporter:	Vladimir D. Seleznev <vseleznv>
Component:	bash5	Assignee:	placeholder <placeholder>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	qa-sisyphus
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P5	CC:	glebfm, ldv, placeholder
Version:	unstable
Hardware:	all
OS:	Linux

Description

Vladimir D. Seleznev 2021-03-25 16:56:54 MSK

When $HISTFILESIZE is set in ~/.bashrc (or any other bash user initialization file), bash during the login session respects its value and truncates ~/.bash_history (I assume the default $HISTFILE) when its line number exceeds $HISTFILESIZE. But with new user login bash truncates ~/.bash_history to 9999 lines, it is very annoying when $HISTFILESIZE is greater that 9999.

HISTFILESIZE=9999 is set in /etc/profile but I think bash handles it too early that it should.

Comment 1

Anton Farygin 2026-09-04 13:30:26 MSK

bash4 больше не используется как системный shell. Ситуация не изменилась: /etc/profile (строка 33) по-прежнему выставляет HISTFILESIZE=9999. Перевешиваю на bash5.