History | grep "keyword2find" does not gives unlimited history

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History | grep "keyword2find" does not gives unlimited history

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The command

history | grep "keyword2find"

does not gives unlimited history that i typed in the terminal onwards i installed ubuntu. I want to see all of them without a time span.

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By default history command, which uses ~/.bash_history file to store command, store only last 2000 commands. So, It doesn't give you unlimited result.

To increase the size, open .bashrc file with this command gedit ~/.bashrc and change the line to increase value

HISTSIZE=1000

HISTFILESIZE=2000

HISTSIZE refers to the number of commands stored.

HISTFILESIZE refers to the number of line contained in the history file.

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