Bash history not saved after closing terminal

Question

I recently replaced my Ubuntu 14.04 installation with Ubuntu Gnome (which comes with Gnome DE). But I noticed that bash history is not saved once the terminal session is closed. Once I close a terminal session and open a new one, and run the command history it does not show anything other than the history command itself. Is there any way to solve this issue?

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score 85 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 27 '19 at 19:31

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It may be that your .bash_history doesn't belong to your user. Check the permissions of the file and if you're not the owner, change it:

sudo chown yourusername:yourusername ~/.bash_history

edited Feb 27 '19 at 19:31

carlin.scott

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answered Oct 25 '14 at 03:13

Nilson Sales

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score 27 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:18

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First type following command

shopt -s

to check weather histappend command is 'on' or 'off' If it is off then type following command to append history

history -a

If you want to save history with every new prompt run following command

export PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a'

For more information see this link

edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:18

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answered Jul 18 '14 at 07:15

Chinmaya B

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