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4lberto/Increase terminal's history size

Created March 20, 2018 09:17
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Increase terminal's history size
#Checking the size
echo $HISTFILESIZE $HISTSIZE
#Chaning the size
HISTFILESIZE=10000000
HISTSIZE=10000000
#Later execute
echo $HISTFILESIZE $HISTSIZE
#should return
10000000 10000000
#Then apply to bash profile file:
HISTFILESIZE=10000000
HISTSIZE=10000000
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