The Best Bash History Settings Ever

best_bash_history.sh

# /etc/profile.d/best_bash_history.sh
# Save 5,000 lines of history in memory
HISTSIZE=10000
# Save 2,000,000 lines of history to disk (will have to grep ~/.bash_history for full listing)
HISTFILESIZE=2000000
# Append to history instead of overwrite
shopt -s histappend
# Ignore redundant or space commands
HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth
# Ignore more
HISTIGNORE='ls:ll:ls -alh:pwd:clear:history'
# Set time format
HISTTIMEFORMAT='%F %T '
# Multiple commands on one line show up as a single line
shopt -s cmdhist
# Append new history lines, clear the history list, re-read the history list, print prompt.
export PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a; history -c; history -r; $PROMPT_COMMAND"

It could be worth testing if it’s an interactive bash shell before loading vars in profile.d with something like:

# Not bash?
[ -n "${BASH_VERSION:-}" ] || return 0

# Not an interactive shell?
[[ $- == *i* ]] || return 0

@CaseOf Why's it important to check for interactive shell?

I see bind gives some errors if it's not interactive

I dont remember exactly but I think I did get an issue while trying to run a script in cron or something like this