How to increase history number in UNIX?

hosneyxxosman · January 27, 2013, 1:39pm

Hi All,
when i use history command i got the last 1000 command
i want to increase this to 10000
how can i do that

RudiC · January 27, 2013, 1:46pm

Read your shell's man page.

hosneyxxosman · January 27, 2013, 2:04pm

Hi RudiC

history man page i found

the history shell variable may be set to the maximum number of command lines that will saved in the history file, that is:
set history = 200

and on google
i found another way
HISTFILESIZE = 200
HISTSIZE = 200

what i don't know the difference between the 2 way

RudiC · January 27, 2013, 2:25pm

man bash:

HISTSIZE commands are kept "online" in an interactive session, whilst up to HISTFILESIZE commands will be saved between sessions. The set history doesn't ring a bell.

hosneyxxosman · January 27, 2013, 4:13pm

thank you RudiC for your support and learning how to find all what i need in man