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Re:Historian: Because Please Stop Deleting My Bash History by oxidized on Thursday April 13, 2017 @01:13AM (#14104316)
This is probably not related to the MacOS issues the author had, but I've actually had my .bash_history cleared out due to a known issue in bash:

http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/88856

> When closing multiple bash instances at the same time, there is a known race condition that may cause the history to be cleared.

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Re:Historian: Because Please Stop Deleting My Bash History by matt_morgan on Thursday April 13, 2017 @07:39AM (#14105948)
Looks like it's fixed (at least mostly) in bash 4.3?
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Re:Historian: Because Please Stop Deleting My Bash History by amake on Thursday April 13, 2017 @11:30AM (#14107808)
macOS Sierra unfortunately still ships with 3.2.
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Re:Historian: Because Please Stop Deleting My Bash History by stouset on Thursday April 13, 2017 @03:12PM (#14110042)
Homebrew ships newer bash. There's zero reason to stick with the default.
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Re:Historian: Because Please Stop Deleting My Bash History by jcsalterego on Thursday April 13, 2017 @01:16AM (#14104325)
Ah, interesting!
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