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Job:	HI-100

Status:	closed

Project:	perforce_software-helix-installer

Severity:	C

ReportedBy:	tom_tyler

ReportedDate:	2022/06/30 15:31:10

ModifiedBy:	tom_tyler

ModifiedDate:	2022/07/05 14:36:09

OwnedBy:	tom_tyler

Description:
	HISTFILE setting in perforce_bashrc is not cross-Linux portable.
	
	=== Customer-contributed comments ===
	History is not kept for the perforce user on Ubuntu 20.04 with Helix Core/SDP
	
	Default bashrc is setup with history settings that follow:
	export HISTFILESIZE=5000
	export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%Y/%m/%d %Z %H:%M:%S "
	export HISTFILE="~/.hist/history.$$.$RANDOM"
	
	When the shell attempts to write to the HISTFILE, the following error occurs:
	perforce@aws-p4d1:/home/perforce history -a
	-bash: history: ~/.hist/history.1029579.575: cannot create: No such file or directory
	
	Unfortunately, this error is silent when the history is not manually written and no history is written on shell exit.
	
	Updating the bashrc HISTFILE solves this issue:
	
	export HISTFILE="$HOME/.hist/history.$$.$RANDOM"
	
	Histories are now written and appear as expected.
	
	=== Research ===
	
	This has a good explanation - the quoting suppresses expansion of
	the ~:
	https://askubuntu.com/questions/1192981/why-isnt-tilde-recognised-as-home-folder-in-this-case
	
	Better to fix this removing the quotes, as the HOME variable isn't
	as reliably set as one would hope.

Component:	env

Type:	Bug
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