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Live Sharing Bash Command History Across Multiple Terminals

This article introduces how to live share command history across multiple terminals in Bash language on Linux PC/server command line.

Shou Arisaka

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Nov 24, 2025

This article introduces how to live share command history across multiple terminals in Bash language on Linux PC/server command line.

export PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a; history -c; history -r; $PROMPT_COMMAND"

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Note that commands like ssh aren’t reflected until they exit, so be careful about this.

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Shou Arisaka

Started web development at 15 by launching a WordPress site. The following year, began microservice development using Ruby on Rails. Currently involved in Next.js website creation supporting the Digital Agency and SaaS development projects, while also pursuing personal modern web app development using React.js, Node.js, and TypeScript as a hobby. Specializes in agile full-stack development from frontend to backend, handling web marketing and advertising design as needed, providing cost-effective and high-quality customer experiences through advertising operations, AI-driven development, and data analysis. Developer, designer, and writer of the IT blog 'DebugTips', which has been supported by over 2 million people worldwide and is celebrating its 9th anniversary. Currently working hard to make the independently developed SNS 'Intrawrite' (currently in beta) Japan's leading domestic social network.