Re: Is "history -s" supposed to work from .bashrc?

[Rudolph T Maceyko]

Bero & Chet,

--On Monday, November 05, 2001 14:16:14 +0100 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 
<bero@redhat.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> we've just received a bug report stating that adding
>
> history -s "foo"
>
> to .bashrc doesn't have any effect (verified) in 2.05 (it did in
> 2.04).
>
> echo 'history -s "Microsoft sucks"' >foo.sh
> . ./foo.sh
>
> continues to work as expected.

Actually in my report I showed that "history -s" works in 
.bash_profile, but not when it is in a control structure.  I haven't 
tried it in .bashrc at all.

My full report is available at
<URL: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55557 >

> Is this change intentional?

I'd still like to know this :-)

Thanks,
Rudy