less doesn't save command history

[d2e8k]

Hi, All!
less doesn't save command history, i.e. file .lesshst isn't created. If I create it manually, nothing writes to it too.

Permissions to home directory is drwxr-xr-x

>env | grep -i less
LESSHISTSIZE=100
PAGER=less
LESS=-N -P%f
LESSHISTFILE=$HOME/.lesshst

Maybe somebody faced with such problem.
OS AIX 5.3 -- I think linux users can have the same issue, hardly this issue depends on OS.

Thanks in advance.

[MrDaler]

do a cat .bash_history at command prompt

[tueglee]

Hi, All!
less doesn't save command history, i.e. file .lesshst isn't created. If I create it manually, nothing writes to it too.

Permissions to home directory is drwxr-xr-x

>env | grep -i less
LESSHISTSIZE=100
PAGER=less
LESS=-N -P%f
LESSHISTFILE=$HOME/.lesshst

Maybe somebody faced with such problem.
OS AIX 5.3 -- I think linux users can have the same issue, hardly this issue depends on OS.

Thanks in advance.

is your intent?:
>history |grep less (to find all less cmds executed or any cmd with string 'less' in it)

or to execute your last "less" cmd

>!less

[MrDaler]

I did the cat .bash_history to show where the commands were stored.

[unlimitedscolobb]

>env | grep -i less
LESSHISTSIZE=100
PAGER=less
LESS=-N -P%f
LESSHISTFILE=$HOME/.lesshst

On my system $LESSHISTFILE is empty. You might try to set this variable to nothing, too, because it points to the default location anyway.

I don't know whether seeing $HOME in the value of $LESSHISTFILE is normal. I'd expect see the real path there. Is this is original value of this variable (set at the installation) or do you initialize it explicitly in some startup file?

[unlimitedscolobb]

do a cat .bash_history at command prompt

.bash_history saves the commands one types in the bash shell, while .lesshst saves the commands and searches one types in less. This files are unrelated (in the current context).

[MrDaler]

My mistake.

[d2e8k]

Hello!
After removing $LESSHISTFILE result persisted the same.
>env | grep -i less
PAGER=less
LESS=-N -P%f

"!less" is executed correctly. Commands to .bash_history are written correctly. But less commands(generally I need search commands) don't write to .lesshst.

[unlimitedscolobb]

After removing $LESSHISTFILE result persisted the same.
>env | grep -i less
PAGER=less
LESS=-N -P%f

Could you please do

  $ echo $LESSHISTFILE

Could it be that the value of this variable is overwritten in the local environment?

[d2e8k]

>echo $LESSHISTFILE

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