[colug-432] Search Command History

[Brian Miller]

On 02/11/2014 08:44 AM, Richard Hornsby wrote:

> On a related note, one thing I’ve noticed is that the bash history
> doesn’t seem to be written to disk immediately.  Even from within our
> office, we’re required to VPN into the datacenter before being able to
> log onto any hosts.  The VPN isn’t the most stable thing in the world,
> nor the are wireless connections we have to use.  (They recently moved
> us to a brand new building and decided during construction that wired
> connections for employees’ desks were an unnecessary expense.)  It seems
> that when my connection gets dropped and the shell is pre-maturely
> terminated, all the history from that session is gone.
>


I would get into the habit of running "screen" whenever you make an SSH 
connection to your server.  That way, when your connection gets dropped, 
you can re-connect, and run "screen -r" to pick up where you left off. 
It's really handy if you need to kick off a long running process.  You 
can start the process at work, disconnect, go home, eat dinner, log in 
through the VPN, and then move on to the next step.