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digor

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Registered: 2018-02-28

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Weird empty '.bash_history-xxxxx.tmp' files pollutes my home

# ls -1 .bash_history*
.bash_history
.bash_history-03581.tmp
.bash_history-07616.tmp
.bash_history-08765.tmp

What are this files? I have never seen before.

jasonwryan

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Registered: 2009-05-09

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Re: Weird empty '.bash_history-xxxxx.tmp' files pollutes my home

Post your .bashrc

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digor

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Registered: 2018-02-28

Posts: 7

Re: Weird empty '.bash_history-xxxxx.tmp' files pollutes my home

#
# ~/.bashrc
#

# If not running interactively, don't do anything
[[ $- != *i* ]] && return

alias ls='ls --color=auto'
PS1='[\u@\h \W]\$ '

#
# ~/.bash_profile
#

[[ -f ~/.bashrc ]] && . ~/.bashrc

Last edited by digor (2018-04-06 23:59:03)

digor

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Registered: 2018-02-28

Posts: 7

Re: Weird empty '.bash_history-xxxxx.tmp' files pollutes my home

Can't find anything about such files. And this happens rarely. Several files was created yesteday (at the same time exactly) while previous in the previous month. About 3 months (or even more) had passed since the first time I noticed. And furthermore, I reinstalled my system recently.

yurius

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Registered: 2022-07-31

Posts: 10

Re: Weird empty '.bash_history-xxxxx.tmp' files pollutes my home

I deleted ~/.bash-history, and then I created it again from user. Now no more *.tmp files appear in ~ .

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,742

Re: Weird empty '.bash_history-xxxxx.tmp' files pollutes my home

Likely you've reached your configured history limit and these are files created to latter flush over the normal bash history.

In any case please don't necrobump 8 year old threads.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Genera … bumping%22