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Dump history from a running bash process
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| #Effectively trigger history -a: | |
| $ gdb -p PID -batch -ex 'call maybe_append_history(get_string_value("HISTFILE"))' | |
| #Dump the last 10 history entries to your local terminal (pty) | |
| $ gdb -p PID -batch -ex 'call append_history(10, "'$(tty)'")' | |
| #Backup the entire history to a temporary file: | |
| $ gdb -p PID -batch -ex 'call write_history("/tmp/history-backup.txt")' |
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