How to? Maintain command line history between reboots

Hi.

I'm trying to keep command line history between reboots with shralias.
Currentlly I have logging enabled and tcstart.cmd file with this:
echo off
ShrAlias 2>> NUL
color green on bri white
echo on

Attached config file.
it works fine for one windows session, but i after i reboot there is no history available.

I'm on win7 x64 sp1 TCC LE 13.04.63, running under admin account with no uac.

Thanks, Oleg.

attaching a file doesn't seem to work so here it is inline:

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Hello Oleg,

corresponding to tcstart.btm you can use a tcexit.btm.
So in tcstart you can issue

Code:

history /r myhistory.log
log  /h /w myhistory.log

and in the tcexit

Code:

history > myhistory.log

HTH

Hi Frank, thanks for the hint!
So I don't need to use shralias in this case? i'm ok if the history is not shared between several sessions running at the same time (actually i'd prefer this behavior)
if i don't run shralias and run several sessions will the history of the last closed session overwrite other sessions histories?

i'm trying to duplicate default bash behavior...

Oleg,
I have not used or tested it before.
I propose you figure it out and give us the result

I have never used bash, I can go only on what you wrote in this thread.

If you want individual command histories for concurrent TCC instances, you need to do all of the following:
1/ make command histories local - start TCC.EXE with the /LH option (or set the corresponding directive in your .INI configuration file using the OPTION dialog)
2/ use tcstart.btm to
2.1/ load the history of the previous session: HISTORY /R logfile
2.2/ specify a command log file: LOG /H /W logfile

You do not need to run SHRALIAS for this operation, nor do you need to explicitly save history in TCEXIT - it will all be there in the logfile, which can grow to be infinitely large.

However, you run into the issues that
1/ you want to generate a unique name for the history file for each concurrent instance, and
2/ how do you find out which one of them to load when a new instance is started.

Issue 1/ is why you need to generate the log file name in TCSTART.BTM - cannot use the configuration directives. One simple method is to use files history.000 ... history.nnn where you set the limit how many different files you want (nnn+1), and use the advanced capabilities of TCC to assign the next available one.

Of course my advice with tcexit was saying the same thing twice over.

Thanks, guys!

Using /lh with HISTORY /R logfile and LOG /H /W logfile seems to do exactly what i want.
Every command gets appended into log so when i open a new shell every command gets loaded, but the commands entered in current shell don't affect other currently running sessions.

Thanks again, Oleg.