When you start MC, the size of the .bash_history file is immediately reduced (past entries are deleted)

Question

bash

Good afternoon!

Tell me how to make friends Midnight Commander and .bash_history. If you run mc, then immediately the size of .bash_history is reduced to 8kb. All the history that did not fit into these 8kb is deleted ... That's such a horror.

How to repeat:

$ du -h .bash_history
 44K	.bash_history
$ mc
$ du -h .bash_history
8,0K	.bash_history

My ~/.profile

export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups,ignoreboth
export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "
export HISTSIZE=
export HISTFILESIZE=

OSX Mountain Lion 10.8.2

[email protected] ~ $ bash --version GNU bash, version 3.2.48(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin12)

[email protected] ~ $ mc --version GNU Midnight Commander , version 4.8.3

Thanks

Answer 1

Solution: add lines from .profile to .local/share/mc/bashrc.

Answer 2

I'm not sure, but I don't think mc is reading .bashrc. Accordingly, if you specify a history file size in it that is larger than what mc works with, then the file will be truncated. But that's just a guess :)

Answer 3

And if you run /usr/bin/mc? (or where mc is put in makosi)

Answer 4

Look in the system, what is the mc that is running, maybe it's a script?
I tried it myself:
$ll ~/.bash_history
-rw-------. 1 oracle cawa 42901 Sep 28 03:25 /home/cawa/.bash_history
$mc
$ll ~/.bash_history
-rw-------. 1 oracle cawa 42901 Sep 28 03:25 /home/cawa/.bash_history
System info:
$cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora release 16 (Verne)
$bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.2.28(1)-release (i386-redhat-linux-gnu)
$mc --version
GNU Midnight Commander 4.8.3

Answer 5

$ file /usr/local/bin/mc
/usr/local/bin/mc: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
$ du -sh .bash_history
 12K	.bash_history
$ /usr/local/bin/mc

$ du -sh .bash_history
8,0K	.bash_history

:(

Answer 6

Well, then I would run mc through strace (if there is an analogue in the macos) and look at the log, whether it climbs to this file or not.